Bug 183123

Summary:	Konqueror and Dolphin both start in fullscreen
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Robin Bankhead <robin.bankhead>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description Robin Bankhead 2009-02-04 02:36:49 UTC

Version:           4.1.4 and up (using KDE 4.2.0)
Compiler:          gcc-4.3.3 CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -w"
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

Since upgrade to kde4.1.4 (and 4.2), whenever konqueror or dolphin are opened (either via commandline or krunner, or opening a folder from the Folder View plasmoid) they now start in fullscreen mode.  I can find no setting in either program to prevent this behaviour.

In 4.1.4, switching to normal (windowed) mode in konqueror and quitting meant that it would be windowed when re-opened (though it would return to opening in fullscreen after a reboot). I didn't check whether this was the case with dolphin. With 4.2.0, both filemanagers open fullscreen again after being switched to windowed mode and restarted.

However, issuing "kfmclient openURL <some local path>" on the commandline opens konqueror (which is set as my system default filemanager) in windowed mode.

This is under Gentoo x86 unstable; the issue has also been reported in Ubuntu Launchpad here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/gentoo/+source/kdelibs/+bug/324232/

Comment 1 Scott Kitterman 2009-02-04 18:52:43 UTC

Note that the Ubuntu bug was reported as happenin in Gnome.  From KDE on 4.1.4 I cannot reproduce this on Kubuntu.

Comment 2 Robin Bankhead 2009-02-05 13:11:03 UTC

Sorry, this is a red herring. I didn't realise it was a window-manager issue (which in my case is compiz + emerald, not kwin). I've followed the advice in the launchpad bug and resolved the issue. Konq still appeared with the menubar disabled, but I've changed that setting and it's survived a restart of the program, so I'm guessing it'll survive a reboot too.