Disable Auto Window Maximize

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Job #1 for me with CentOS 7 is to disable the automatic window maximization.

Some googling found this command:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.mutter auto-maximize false No such schema ‘org.gnome.mutter’

and this:

$ gsettings set orh.gnome.shell.overrides edge-tiling false but that had no visible effect.

I couldn’t find anything under Applications->documentation and I didn’t see anything in the on-line GNOME help manual.

I looked under Applications->System Tools and Applications->Utilities. I found the Tweak Tool but didn’t see anything in there either.

Can someone point me to some documentation on how to do this?

Thanks, Steve

4 thoughts on - Disable Auto Window Maximize

  • Gnome 3 was released over 3 years ago… a simple web search yields:

    # yum install dconf-editor

    It’s all in there.

  • —- Chris Pemberton wrote:

    But Gnome 3 is new to CentOS. In fact Gnome 3 was the main reason I stopped using Fedora and moved to CentOS in the first place.

    Thanks for the info though. It appears that dconf-editor is just a graphical front end to gsettings. In my original post, I mentioned some of the gsettings commands that I had already tried. I eventually found the right one by searching through one by one – my original comment about the documentation still stands.

    For others searching the archives in the future, the command that stopped the awful auto-maximise is:
    $ gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.classic-overrides edge-tiling false

    Intuitively obvious, right?… yeah.

    Job #1 – make it less annoying – check. Job #2 – make it less ugly…

    Steve