I have an Opera icon on desktop that opens opera maximised but I can’t add it to the panel and if I click on the Icon in the menu list (internet) it doesn’t open maximised,is the a way to get this to open maximised from the panel?
Run
sudo xed /usr/share/applications/opera.desktop
make it read
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Opera
GenericName=Web browser
Comment=Fast and secure web browser
TryExec=opera
Exec=opera --start-maximized %U
Terminal=false
Icon=opera
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;application/x-opera-download;
Actions=NewWindow;NewPrivateWindow;
[Desktop Action NewWindow]
Name=New Window
Exec=opera --new-window --start-maximized
TargetEnvironment=Unity
[Desktop Action NewPrivateWindow]
Name=New Private Window
Exec=opera --private --start-maximized
TargetEnvironment=Unity
SAVE the file.
Now the menu item in your main menu will also open maximised.
As for the panel … which panel are you using ?
You may now need to remove Opera from the panel, and re-add it.
Cheers Mark will give it a go.Panel I’m using is the default one that came with Cinnamon Tara
Thanks
Yep that sorted it thanks Mark.
Great stuff 
Mark Opera has now stopped opening maximised after update,I normally just re edit after an update with above text but now getting this message
** (xed:9810): WARNING **: 08:09:58.974: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::xed-spell-language not supported
** (xed:9810): WARNING **: 08:09:58.975: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::xed-encoding not supported
** (xed:9810): WARNING **: 08:10:10.399: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::xed-position not supported
Any ideas mate.
those are Gtk warnings for the xed text editor … nothing to worry about.
Why Opera has stopped working with the --start-maximized option is beyond me … they must have disabled the option, though god only knows why :
Well it’s back working again,don’t know what happened there but thanks for replying Mark.
Great news
I guess Opera must have fixed something.