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What does the "+" Symbol in the task bar mean? This is a screenshot with the "+".

It happens, that the clients with a "+" do not tile when opening another client. The "+" disappears, when maximizing the client, but then it does not tile either.

Any ideas how to deactivate the "+" status?

maikel
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    Possible duplicate of [Awesome WM: what do the icons of the title bar mean?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27475104/awesome-wm-what-do-the-icons-of-the-title-bar-mean) – zypro May 12 '17 at 07:46

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I've just had a related problem where my chromium window would always start maximized, which is the plus sign. I added a rule to prevent this, as suggested in the link at the bottom. 

{ rule = { class = "chromium" },
  properties = { maximized = false } },

https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/1599

mateuszb
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Your firefox is maximized.

The "+" disappears, when maximizing the client,

You mean when unmaximizing, right?

Here is a link to the line of the code which uses a (bold) plus as indication of maximized clients: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/blob/3cfb577387d52e898455a64344f73409bc6f481b/lib/awful/widget/tasklist.lua#L243

Uli Schlachter
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    Thank you, you're totally right, + means "maximized". But if not maximized, the window is floating ('✈') and maximized_horizontal ('⬌') and maximized_vertical ('⬍'). The following issue helped me with this problem tough: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44364/how-to-maximise-a-window-horizontal-or-vertically. – maikel May 15 '17 at 07:16