"but why is the window starting maximised a problem? surely u want the window to fill the screen?"
true, but automatically maximised windows don't tend to behave themselves in a tiled window manager (in my experience at least). in this case, the window accounts for the size of the taskbar, but then centres itself vertically, covering half of it - hence the workaround
@PolyCement oh gosh I get this problem all the time with dev tools
stop trying to do my window management for me, programs!!!!
@PolyCement noooooo
agkshgjskhgj that's awful