Running openSuSE 12.1, KDE 4.7, new to KDE. Switched from Gnome when they came out with Gnome 3 (yuk).

Playing around trying to get Compiz type effects working and somewhere, somehow I hit something such that now, ever time I open a new window/program it opens up in Full Screen mode. I double click the title area and it downsizes but I don't want to have to do that everytime I open something up.

How do I turn off the "Maximize on Open" functionality?

Tony

BTW, am so far VERY much liking KDE over Gnome 3.

what is:

systemsettings -> window behavior -> window behavior -> advanced -> placement -> _______?

if it's "maximizing" that could be your problem

google01103 wrote:what is:

systemsettings -> window behavior -> window behavior -> advanced -> placement -> _______?

if it's "maximizing" that could be your problem

Value there is Smart. Next thing I am going to try is creating a new user, logging in as that person, and see if same behaviour (personal setting vs system wide).

Thanks for the suggestion!

what if you change placement from smart to something else?

what about systemsettings -> window behavior -> window behavior -> advanced -> window rules
it should be empty but it could be possible to have rules that maximize

also, what happens is you disable desktop effects ctrl+shift+F12

Creating the new user then signing in as that user removed the behavior.

Also, in System Settings->Window Behavior->Window Behavior->Advanced the placement is still Smart.

However, Tiling is now off.

OK, that seems to be the issue and in playing around with tiling and getting to understand it a bit it now makes sense.

Tiling is literally that, stacking the windows in the current workspace as if tiles on your floor. I was creating windows in **EMPTY** work spaces so the initial window came up "tiled" in that workspace, ie, occupying the whole thing. I did not attempt to create another window in that new space until I had gotten the original resized.

So, I turned tiling off and the behavior went away. Multiple windows were created in a work space at a size much smaller than my screen and in random fashion.

I turned tiling back on the the first window occupied 100% of the workspace, the second window then split the entire workspace 50/50 with the first, the third split took 50% of the real estate occupied by the second, and so on.

I will be marking this solved, thanks for the help google!