I just upgraded to kde 4.7.2 on a gentoo system

Now all apps open in windows that are too small and not
equal to the window size when the app was closed.

It used to be if you resized a window KDE would remember
that size and next time you opened that app, the window
would be restored to the same size.

Does anyone know where this is set? OR how to correct this
annoying behaviour?

thanks in advance,

does this behavior happen to all users of the system? if not I'd move/rename the kwin rc files ~/.kde[4]/config/kwin*rc and kwin folders ~/.kde[4]/apps/kwin* and restart kwin

kwin --replace&

thanks, but deleting the kwin*rc files does not solve the problem,
which also occurs on the desktop of a different user ...


edit: not all apps suffer this I now notice: kwrite and konsole (for
example) remember window sizes; konqueror and kmail do
not (especially annoying kmail, which scrunches the message
pane in a very bad way)

I guess I can set the advanced window behaviour option to fix
konqueror's etc. size ... This seems to work so far

According to viewtopic.php?f=66&t=97329#p205429 this seems to be a well-known bug.

I have found the on my system the root of the problem
is that kde is not handling dual monitors that have
*different* resolutions properly.

the window sizes are being remembered but the
size for (on my system) the left monitor is used
when an app restarts whether or not I'm starting
the app on the left or the right screen

if you look in the rc files, or in the konqueror
profiles you'll see listings like this:

Code: Select all

Height 1024=920
Height 1050=920
Width 1280=979
Width 1680=979


so you see the two monitors (left= 1024x1280 and
right= 1050x1680). These values are updated properly
but, as I say, when I restart only the values from the
left monitor are used.

pretty shoddy behaviour ...