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

[Wells, Roger K.]

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 
> > 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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