What are Gnome's criteria to maximize the window of an application after its invocation?

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I noticed that if you enlarge a program’s window so that it covers a huge amount of the desktop (do not let the window cover the desktop completely, just keep some space left), it will be started as maximized next time.

Example:

  • open Files (usually, its window is small enough so that it won’t start maximized)
  • move and resize File’s window so that it is occupying almost all of the desktop space (ensure to keep a bit of the desktop visible around it)
  • close Files
  • now open Files again, and watch it jumping to maximized (and double click the title bar for restoring the actual geometry you’ve set before)

As I guess that this is a feature: does anyone of you know how Gnome decides whether to start a program maximized or not? Is it because of some Gnome design and aesthetics rules?

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Gnome stores apps settings including your window size preference on your user data base. When opening an app, the settings are read and adjusted accordingly.

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But this doesn’t answer my question why/when it’s jumping to a maximized window instead of using the last used geometry.