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FuzzySPb

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Registered: 2013-01-21

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[SOLVED]GNOME doesn't save maximized window state after recent upgrade

Hi,

I have gnome on my desktop and everything was pretty well. But I noticed recently that it stopped saving maximized state of my windows.
I.e I run some application, resize its window, move it somewhere on my screen and then close. At next run Gnome restores window position and size.
But if I run application, maximize its window and close it then Gnome will run it at default location with default size.
This happens for any application. And it appears that behavior changed after gnome-shell upgrade 44.0-1 -> 44.1-3 (it is the latest gnome related update and I did it 5 days ago - approximately when problem started).

Are there any ideas what was changed and how to fix it?

Last edited by FuzzySPb (2023-08-24 08:28:58)

FuzzySPb

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Registered: 2013-01-21

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Re: [SOLVED]GNOME doesn't save maximized window state after recent upgrade

I just noticed that some programs are able to preserve maximized state - at least Firefox, LibreOffice, Telegram do it.
But many others not - for example Thunderbird is started always as a small window at the same place (who is expected to behave the same way as Firefox does).
I thought it might be an issue for programs that are not GTK, but Qt based. But Telegram is Qt based as far as I know so it doesn't look like a reason.

So it puzzles me a lot why it was fine before and then only part of applications suffer from this problem now.

mixin

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Registered: 2023-05-12

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Re: [SOLVED]GNOME doesn't save maximized window state after recent upgrade

Hi, probably it's https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2579

FuzzySPb

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Registered: 2013-01-21

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Re: [SOLVED]GNOME doesn't save maximized window state after recent upgrade

Hi, probably it's https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2579

Thanks, it appears you are right. And I see there is a report for Arch registered 5 days ago - approximately when I first noticed this problem too.

FuzzySPb

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Re: [SOLVED]GNOME doesn't save maximized window state after recent upgrade

It appears the problem was solved. My windows are again maximazed at start after fresh packages installation today morning.

pezz

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From: Geelong, Australia

Registered: 2010-05-23

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Re: [SOLVED]GNOME doesn't save maximized window state after recent upgrade

Had this issue for months.

This is largely resolved for me as well after the gnome-shell and mutter upgrades today.

The only app misbehaving still for me is Element.