Re: EXTERNAL: Re: how to prevent google-chrome from starting full screen in gnome3?

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On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 08:12:55 -0500, Wells, Roger K. wrote:

> On 03/02/2018 07:51 AM, Amadeus WM wrote:
>> On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 07:40:10 -0500, Ted Roche wrote:
>>
>>> "Metro" and "Chrome" are window modes for Microsoft Windows 8. This
>>> doesn't apply to Gnome3 on Fedora.
>>>
>>> I believe that Chrome starts in the window condition it was last in:
>>> if you close Chrome in full-screen mode, that's what it starts up in
>>> next time.
>>>
>>> To prevent from Chrome starting  in full-window mode, click on
>>> Chrome's top bar, other than on the tabs and buttons, to take it out
>>> of full-window mode (I don't know what this mode is called) before
>>> closing Chrome.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 5:53 PM, Amadeus WM <amadeus84@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>> No sure if this is a gnome3 problem or a chrome problem, but it's
>>>> very annoying. It was not happening in F26 running Mate. The only
>>>> somewhat useful answer I've found on google was this:
>>>>
>>>> https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/O2riRmf3BCE
>>>>
>>>> which says I have to switch from metro to chrome. Does anyone know
>>>> how to do that?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
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>> I thought so and I tried that too, but it won't remember the last
>> state,
>> it always starts full screen. Pan does the same thing. It must be some
>> gnome3 setting.
> 
> I just did the following;
> 1. open google chrome.  It did so using full screen.
> 2. I positioned & sized it at a new location.
> 3. then exited via the exit option in the drop down menu.
> 4. restarted chrome and it came up in the position & size that I left it
> in.
> 
> uname -r: 4.15.4-300.fc27.x86_64 gnome-3.26 Google Chrome: Version
> 64.0.3282.186 (Official Build) (64-bit)
> 
> HTH
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Thanks, that worked! I believe when I did that before, I must have had 
other chrome windows still open in other workspaces. It's all good now, 
thanks!


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