apps start maximized randomly

[Gregg Weber]

Firefox, thunderbird, aisleriot, all start full screen randomly.
Sometimes they start at the correct size at last close.
To reproduce: open {aisleriot|firefox|thunderbird} change size to not full screen.
Close {aisleriot|firefox|thunderbird}
Open {aisleriot|firefox|thunderbird}
Result: {aisleriot|firefox|thunderbird} is full screen
Expected result: {aisleriot|firefox|thunderbird} is same size as when closed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: mutter 3.26.1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 24 12:24:58 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-05-23 (153 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mutter
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-22 (2 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Gregg Weber (stillingia)]

I see that this is by design, gnome project calls it "automaximize"
There are some people like me, complaining that we can no longer have
3/4 screen windows, gnome always maximizes them to full screen now.
The project does not seem to care too much.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) reached end-of-life on July 19, 2018.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for mutter (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]