Is there a way to keep an application in full screen mode after placing it to a half of the screen? The question is about Ubuntu Unity, but other DE are relevant too.

On Ubuntu [16.04, Unity, Compiz] it is possible to toggle full screen mode (via F11, for example) and move the window to a part of the screen (via ctrl + Super + left_arrow, for example): like that. But if I move focus to another window and then move it back to the full-screened one, it simultaneously exposes to the whole screen. So is there a way to do not let it to expose? I've looked up for it in CompizConfig, but found nothing.

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