[SLUG] How do I stop Fedora maximising my windows?

[Ross Kendall]

Hi John,

I'm not sure about Fedora/Gnome (I've been on openSUSE/KDE for quite a 
while and don't experiment with others so often these days), but a more 
recent feature with KDE sounds similar.  On KDE, the window resizing 
(half screen to the side, maximise to the top) is only activated if I 
move the mouse pointer within about 20px of the edge of the screen. If I 
don't go that close, the window will remain the same size. I use 2 
screens and find the feature quite handy for moving windows between 
screens or tiling side-by-side in a single screen, so it gets a thumbs 
up from me.

I'm sure there will be a way to disable it, and Stephen's suggestion 
sounds on the right track.

Cheers,
Ross.

On 08/09/11 13:38, John Allsopp wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've searched for this and can't find the answer.
>
> In Fedora, if I move a browser screen out of the way to the side, it
> resizes it to fill half the screen. No, I wanted it out of the way.
>
> If I move it up, if I'm not careful, it maximises it. No, I just wanted it
> up.
>
> It does it with Firefox, and with Epiphany, but not with the file
> explorer, so I'm not sure whether it's a browser setting or a Gnome
> setting. I've looked in both and can't see a "stop/start being irritating"
> setting.
>
> At least one of you knows the answer to this. Care to share?
>
> Cheers
> J
>
>