[PLUG] Window expansion

[John Jason Jordan]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:29:16 -0500
Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> dijo:

>Not sure what was done in one of the updates, but my
>Mate sessions now seem to want to go to full screen
>when I try to grasp the upper bar on a window to drag
>it elsewhere. I do not understand who gets these stupid
>ideas (I see that windows does that so figure they must
>be trying to emulate it) sure wish that they would ASK
>if I wanted that function.
>
>Anyone have an idea of where to poke at that one? I
>am running Mate 18.01 using Compiz. This has just
>started after one of the latest updates. It is very irritating
>if I wanted a screen full of an application I would open
>it that way.  Just want to turn it off.

Xfce4 does that if you drag the top bar to the top of the screen, bu
you can turn it off in the settings GUI thing. I don't know where the
setting might be in Mate, but I'd bet it can be disabled.