There is a downstream bug opened for a potential enhancement that the gpk-update-viewer should not always launch a maximized window, especially on a large monitor (4K 65 inches monitor): https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1101056 It looks the "-1" as a width intentionally passed to gpk_window_set_size_request makes the window running with "small form factor mode" in most of the cases: https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-packagekit/commit/13674c362c6041264f016e62a998850de354e946 I am actually not 100% sure about what is the best way to handle here, especially for hi-dpi large screen. Perhaps there is a chance to make a choice of initial window size by checking practical screen size. Also, "Remember" the last closed size of gpk-update-viewer might be a candidate choice as well.
We moved the upstream bugtracker to GitHub a long time ago. If this issue still affects you please re-create the issue here: https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/issues Sorry for the impersonal message, and fingers crossed your issue no longer happens. Thanks.
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