Plus symbol in task bar

Question

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?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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