GNOME Terminal always opens maximised [duplicate]

I have a small but annoying problem that I just can't figure out.

I have two installations of Ubuntu 18.04. One on my laptop, one on my desktop.

Whenever I open gnome-terminal on my desktop it defaults to being a maximised window. I know some people like it maximised by default (and there are plenty of forum posts etc. advising how this might be done), but I personally want it to appear in a small window.

No matter what I do, I can't seem to get it to let go of this behavior. I checked the Man pages for command line arguments I might specify, but nothing. I don't know where it has picked up this habit.

Anyone care to enlighten me as to where the application might be getting this instruction? And how I might turn it off?

Just to mention, if I create another user account and log in with that, this does not happen. As such, something in my own profile must be driving it.. just not sure where to look.

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2 Answers

Nautilus normally remembers the last Window size. If a window size is near to filling the screen, Gnome Shell (used by Ubuntu 18.04) will automatically maximize. If that is the cause, then turn this of in org.gnome.mutter auto-maximize. With the terminal:

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter auto-maximize false

To undo:

gsettings reset org.gnome.mutter auto-maximize

This was happening to me and nothing changed applying the solutions of the answers above, but I realized that if you are using Maximus to undecorate de maximized windows, you have to disable the no_maximize option (Do not automatically maximize newly opened windows. If undecorate is set, will still undecorate maximised windows.) using Alt+F2 [gconf-editor] / > apps> Maximus.