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Every time I open a PDF, Document Viewer takes up the whole screen and then I press F11, Ctrl+Super+Up to maximize it instead. This is tedious.

How can I stop it from automatically entering full-screen mode?

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    In the upper left corner there is a settings icon. Try clicking it and selecting "Save current as default" after you have gone through the process you describe.
    – v010dya
    Jan 4, 2014 at 20:20

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Reset to default
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Converting Volodya's answer as a comment to a complete answer:

You probably changed Document Viewer's default settings by accident. This is an easy mistake to make, since the keyboard shortcut for doing so is the same as for opening a tab in your web browser, and you frequently type into the wrong window as a result of the lag in Unity's window switcher.

To correct the mistake:

  1. Exit the full-screen view by pressing F11 or unchecking View ▸ Fullscreen.

  2. Save the current settings as default by pressing Ctrl+T or selecting Edit ▸ Save Current Settings as Default.

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This won't affect documents you've opened previously until you reset the stored settings for those documents.

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You can also run the following command in the terminal to change the default setting:

gsettings set org.gnome.Evince.Default fullscreen false

If you also want to have all windows maximized by default, additionally run the following command, replacing 1920, 1080 with your screen size:

gsettings set org.gnome.Evince.Default window-ratio '(1920, 1080)'

After the first launch of Evince after that, it rewrites that ratio to something else (that still works).

(Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 with Evince 3.36.10.)

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