Bug 831030

Summary:	Window size not saved -- starts maximized
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jeff Sheltren <sheltren>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	abetakehiko, maxamillion, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Jeff Sheltren 2012-06-12 03:15:57 UTC

Description of problem:
When I resize a window to make it "large" but not maximized on the full screen (e.g. takes up all vertical space, and ~70% or more of horizontal space), that window size is not used the next time an application is opened; instead, the program starts with a maximized window.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-3.4.1-5.fc17.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a new application window (I can reproduce with at least: Chromium, Firefox, Gnome "Files" application).
2. Resize window to take up all vertical space on the screen and most of the horizontal space (roughly 1223 x 741 on my laptop screen with a total resolution of 1366 x 768)
3. Close application by clicking on the 'X' in the corner.
  
Actual results:
When application is opened the next time, the window opens up maximized.

Expected results:
Window should open up at the last-used size.

Additional info:
When windows are sized smaller (e.g. 1223 x 578), closed, and then opened again, they open up to the last-used size. I can consistently reproduce this bug on my laptop but cannot reproduce it on my desktop (1920 x 1080 resolution) -- both running F17 and latest updates.

Comment 1 Jeff Sheltren 2012-06-28 03:53:43 UTC

Any ideas on this? It's quite annoying to have to resize windows all the time.

Comment 2 Takehiko Abe 2012-08-01 01:55:59 UTC

I am afraid that this is actually a "feature" rather than a bug.

http://git.gnome.org/browse/mutter/commit/?id=f2f500836ef217bfbd7bbf5ad54c9248cbdb7925

: Windows that start up in a size that is almost as big as the workarea
: create extra work for the user (resizing or maximizing) so save the
: user's time by detecting such windows and automaximize them.

"save the user's time"!

I hope there will be an option to turn this off.

Comment 3 Takehiko Abe 2012-08-01 02:11:46 UTC

Ah, the bug is already filed agaist mutter:

Bug 821589 - Mutter second guessing explicitly set window size, maximises instead

Comment 4 Jeff Sheltren 2012-08-01 14:24:03 UTC

Thanks, I'm marking this as a duplicate of Bug 821589 since there's more info there on the cause.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 821589 ***