Whenever I start an application like Terminal or Preview, they are always opened as a small window on the top left corner of the screen. Is there any way to set them to open in the center of the screen? Preferably maximized too?
How to set default Window position and/or size
window-manager
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Best Answer
In Terminal you can change the default window size from Preferences > Settings > Window:
You can also use window groups to set a default position and size for the window opened when you launch Terminal (but not for new windows opened later).
I use Sequential and Skim as alternatives to Preview and iTerm 2 as an alternative to Terminal. All of them have an option to open windows in full screen by default, and all of them have their own (pre-Lion and actually usable) implementations for full screen windows.
The sizes of Finder windows are saved in
.DS_Store
files and there are no default window size settings incom.apple.Finder.plist
or anything. I use a script like this to reset the properties of windows: