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Why do windows sometimes not restore from maximised?

Hi all
I've had a good look round t'internet but I can't find a definitive answer to this. It often happens that when I've maximised something, and then try to restore it, it doesn't go back the the previous size. It just gets slightly smaller than maximised, and I have to go fiddling around down in the corner to resize it. This happens mostly with lxterminal, but occasionally with other apps as well. Does anyone know why this happens, and how can it happen sometimes and not others.

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Re: Why do windows sometimes not restore from maximised?

^That hits me sometimes too - the window doesn't "remember" its previous dimensions. It happens with a lot of apps from time to time. Annoying, but sorry, I don't know why. Issue with openbox?

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Re: Why do windows sometimes not restore from maximised?

Thanks John. It's not a big problem, like you say it's just a bit annoying. More so for not being able to understand how it can happen. I mean, I don't know much about operating systems, back when I used to do a lot of programming it was on the Amiga where you could just bypass the OS completely! But when you look at some of the more complicated things a window manager has to do, you would think keeping track of a windows previous position wouldn't be that hard. I could understand it if you did a lot of things between maximising and restoring, maybe a variable gets screwed up, but sometimes it does it if you restore immediately. It's weird.

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Re: Why do windows sometimes not restore from maximised?

I see the same behaviour from time to time, and can confirm it's annoying (especially on a huge monitor where it's a long way to go to manually resize). Using the keyboard shortcuts for resizing the window to half the screen can help a bit.

The window resizing on Windows 11 is IMO very well implemented and is pretty much the only thing I prefer about using my work Windows PC compared to BL.

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Re: Why do windows sometimes not restore from maximised?

Yes, I never had anything like this with Windows. I suppose it's a lot harder to get things working in harmony with Linux, with each part of a distro being developed by different groups.