disable full screen apps in KDE

[Brian Cluff]

You may have forgotten to click "Apply" on the main System Settings 
window like I did the first time I was testing it.  Clicking OK on the 
windows settings windows isn't enough for it to take effect.

Brian

On 6/10/21 1:16 PM, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> On 2021-06-10 11:37, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> System Settings -> Window Managment -> Window Rules
>>  Click on New
>>  Set the Description to something like "No Full Screen" and leave
>> everything else alone, it they should all be set to Unimportant.
>>  Click on the "Size & Position" tab
>>  Check the box next to "Fullscreen" then change the select box next
>> to it to "Force"  and the bubble next to that should be set to "No"
>>  Click OK and it will warn you with the verbage that means that it's
>> going to match ALL windows which would normally not be good, but
>> that's what you want.
>>  Then click Apply on the main System Setting windows and enjoy your
>> no full screen system.
>
> The first time I tried this, it worked; pushing the "Full Screen" 
> button on gwenview put the full screen mode of gwenview into 
> gwenview's window and did not expand the window.  Then I removed the 
> rule, and full screen in gwenview worked again.  Then I thought "Wait, 
> what about GTK+ applications?"  I put the rule back.  Gimp's full 
> screen mode went to full screen, which I sort of expected.  So did 
> gwenview's, which I did not.
>
> And now every application is able to go full screen, regardless of the 
> rule's presence.  I'm a bit confused as to why it'd work the first 
> time and not the second time.
>