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

[Amadeus WM]

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!

[Ted Roche]

"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!
>
> users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]

[Amadeus WM]

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!
> >
> > users mailing list -- [e-mail] To unsubscribe send
> > an email to [e-mail]

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.

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!
> > >
> > > users mailing list -- [e-mail] To unsubscribe send
> > > an email to [e-mail]
>
> 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
> users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]

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

[Amadeus WM]

On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 08:12:55 -0500, Wells, Roger K. wrote:
> 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!
> > > >
> > > > users mailing list -- [e-mail] To unsubscribe
> > > > send an email to [e-mail]
> >
> > 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;
> open google chrome.  It did so using full screen.
> I positioned & sized it at a new location.
> then exited via the exit option in the drop down menu.
> 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
> > users mailing list -- [e-mail] To unsubscribe send
> > an email to [e-mail]

Thanks, that worked! I believe when I did that before, I must have had 
other chrome windows still open in other workspaces. It's all good now, 
thanks!

[Ahmad Samir]

On 2 March 2018 at 00:53, 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!

By "full screen" do you mean you don't see the title bar at all? or do
you mean the window is maximised?

[Amadeus WM]

> By "full screen" do you mean you don't see the title bar at all? or do
> you mean the window is maximised?

maximized.