Questions tagged [maximized]
Questions relating to maximised windows (windows taking up all of the screen space except titlebar and application switcher) in any DE. Not to be confused with fullscreen which also hides the titlebar and application switcher
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How to maximize or make fullscreen a window across dual monitors?
Is there any way to do this in GNOME desktop environment?
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Cannot maximize application window of Skype and Anydesk in ubuntu 20.04
I am not able to maximize the application window of Skype and Anydesk apps to full height and width just like other apps in Ubuntu 20.04.
This problem seems to be for the Ubuntu 20.04 version because ...
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Maximized windows become maximized behind launcher
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04, I have encountered a problem related to maximizing windows. Occasionally, and with no triggers I've been able to observe, maximized windows will change their position ...
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Terminal window automatically resizes, overlapping with Launcher
I run an out-of-the-box Ubuntu 22.04 installation on a relatively small X1 Thinkpad with a 13 inch display. The Gnome Launcher is on the left hand side of the screen and I run my Terminal window full-...
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Remove Ugly Sharp Corners when a Window is Maximized - GNOME
Is there a way to keep the window titlebar corners rounded when maximized? As a former MacOS user, I find it ugly when I maximize a window and it's sharp like that, especially since the dock is right ...
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Can I prevent a mouse drag from unmaximizing a window?
Ubuntu 20.04
I often drag the titlebar or scrollbar of a maximized window by mistake, causing it to unmaximize and get repositioned.
I have disabled "Edge Tiling" in Gnome Tweaks, and this ...
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How to "forced" maximize a window?
For some windows such as modal dialogs which is too small for long texts to display properly, "Maximize window"/"Super+Up" doesn't work but "Maximize window horizontally" ...
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Videos (Totem) in Ubuntu 18.04 always launches maximized
I recently installed 18.04. I was able to change the system settings so that applications are not launched maximized, but Videos (Totem) is always launched maximized.
How to prevent Totem from ...
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xubuntu not showing minimize, maximize and close buttons
After latest update application window doesn't display minimize, maximize and close button
But it show minimize, maximize and close button when application is not maximized
I have installed gnome-...
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How to increase size of minimize, maximize and close button in ubuntu 14.04?
How to increase size of minimize, maximize and close button in ubuntu 14.04? Is is possible to change shape of these icons from round to square?
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How can I start Pidgin maximised if maximus doesn't do it?
I use maximus to force applications to open in a maximized window, as suggested in this answer. [1] However, Pidgin message windows are not affected. When I start Pidgin, my buddy list doesn't appear ...
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Application to reproduce Mac OS X full screen mode?
I am currently running Xubuntu 13.04, but this would also be cool on Stock Ubuntu.
I am a big fan of the way full screen works in Mac OS X, and would like to reproduce the effect on Linux with ...
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How can i get the MacOS green + button function in Ubuntu?
Is there a way to get que MacOS zoom button (the one called "+" in green color) fuction in Ubuntu windows?
not to maximize windows, just to "optimize" them like in MacOS?
Here a video showing it ...
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Ubuntu 23.04 can't save maximized window settings after closing applications
I have a problem saving maximized window settings in Ubuntu 23.04 with applications when they're closed and then reopened. For example if I open Filezilla and maximize it, then after closing and ...
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Titlebar Min/Max/Close Buttons Stuck in Taskbar
Sometime recently the min/max/close buttons for applications started appearing the taskbar, to the right of my clock. I didn't enforce this setting this deliberately, and I think it started happening ...
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Turn specific animations off on Gnome
Simple, I want to disable minimise & maximise animations as i hate them but want to keep workspace and other animations as they work for me and i like them. I know we can do it in KDE but Can i do ...
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Window cannot be moved/unmaximized (alt + drag does not work)
There is exactly 1 program that is having this issue. Every other program is working perfectly fine.
Regardless of how many times I close this program or restart my machine, this windowed ...
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In 17.10 all new windows start maximized is there a way to disable that?
Every application that opens a new window will create a maximized window and I don't like that. Is there a way to start applications normally? like the previous window size
Ubuntu 17.10
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Link minimize/maximize/on top between parent/child app windows
I run several apps split between two monitors and I'd love to have parent and child windows minimizing/maximizing and brought to top by each other as they behave in Windows. Anyone know if this is ...
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Is it possible to give an application window-control buttons which it currently does not have?
I don't know how possible this will be as I have programmed a lot before and have often set it so that programs are not able to be resized etc and making it so that it does not have certain window-...
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How can I access window buttons on maximised windows?
I've just upgradeed to Ubuntu 23.10 Mantic Minotaur. I'm realising a nice new feature, where any maximised window's top bar integrates with Ubuntu's status bar - it completely disappears. While I like ...
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Unable to properly view full screen apps
I just installed Ubuntu and I'm new in it. I'm experiencing this bug that if I minimize an app like the web browser and I try to maximize it again it doesn't go maximized. There are like some margins ...
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How to maximize the screen of Ubuntu 20.04 using VirtualBox
I have installed Ubuntu 20.04 using VirtualBox. Now the screen I am viewing is not the maximized one. I want to maximize it as the primary operating systems' screen resolution by adding any guest ...
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Dual Monitor Nvidia GeForce GTX660 | Window Maximize
Currently I have two monitors plugged into the two DVI connectors on an nVIDIA GeForce GTX660 GPU. When I maximise a windows of a programme, it stretches across both monitors. I would like to have a ...
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minimize, maximize, close; wifi, sound etc. title bars size increasing
guys I am pretty new to ubuntu, just installed 17.10 version, been playing around for a while and I was wondering is there any chance I could increase at least MIN, MAXI and CLOSE button size, its way ...
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Encountering some problems with gnome-terminal startup and maximize button!
Hi, have been a linux user for more than an year now. I have used mint for most of the time and switched to ubunutu a month back. I have some issue with the maximize button, when I press maximize the ...
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Make Brackets open maximised?
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 with brackets installed (btw, does brackets work on Ubuntu 17? Coz when I checked with 16 it didn't? But anyway...)
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When I open Brackets it always comes up in ...
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How to avoid windows to unmazimize when clicking title bar in ubuntugnome
I'm not sure what changed in my environment, but today I started noticing some behavior I don't like:
If I have a window maximized and I click the title of the window, the window unmaximize. I know ...
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How to I get my page on Ubuntu 14.04 to maximize correctly
When I click maximize, It will maximize the window. However it will leave about a one inch gap between the top and the left side. How do I get this to go away and make the window maximize fully. ...
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[Ctrl][Alt] causing windows to maximise vertically
Ubuntu 14.10, Unity, running Windows under KVM. Pressing Ctrl+Altimmediately causes the focused window to maximise vertically (no other keys pressed).
Pressing them again causes the window to ...
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