Bug 438041

Summary: Window preferences of GTK apps are not being remembered
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Lua <lv215bd5>
Component: generalAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.21.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Lua 2021-06-03 14:31:08 UTC 
SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install a GTK app like gnome-disk-utility;
2. Open it, maximize it and reopen the app;
3. Do step 2 again, but this time move the window to another position of the screen.

OBSERVED RESULT
The window preferences will not be remembered when starting the app again.

EXPECTED RESULT


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon 5.21
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.4.0-74-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8265U CPU @ 1.60GHz
Memory: 15,5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-06-08 23:17:25 UTC 
On X11, it's up to apps themselves to do this, and this is what KDE apps that remember their size and position are doing. So if GNOME apps aren't doing so, it's because they're lacking the feature.

On Wayland, the window manager is responsible, so it would be feasible to have it automatically remember size and position for all windows. For that, see Bug 15329.