Ubuntu
beryl-core package

windows do not maximize correctly for non-standard desktop configuration

Bug #122970 reported by ih
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

If I make an odd desktop configuration of the panels the windows do not maximize correctly.

An example configuration will be attached in the post that follows right after this.

Basically I have configured my desktop with 2 panels which are top and one left. The second top one is "non expanding" so there is plenty of room for the window to occupy the whole rectangle. When you maximize a window it resizes to the area as if the 2nd top panel is "expanding" and occupies the whole width of the desktop.

I can manually resize the window to occupy the whole area.

The problem might actually be in metacity, not sure.

This is on Ubuntu 7.04 AMD64, but I believe it's easily reproducible on other machines.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 29 01:06:21 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu3.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/ihristov
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/ihristov/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux lx9n 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 19:00:28 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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ih (ih-ad) wrote :
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ih (ih-ad) wrote :
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ih (ih-ad) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. Doesn't happen on a stock GNOME, your screenshot indicate you are using beryl, reassigning the bug to it

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ih (ih-ad) wrote : Not sure it's a beryl issue

Yes, Beryl is installed on this machine, but I had some odd behaviour with it and disabled it. The window manager is set to Metacity and the Window decorator is set to "GTK Window Decorator"

I also tried the same scenario on a different computer that never had beryl installed and it still does the same.

Are you sure the default does not do it? Maybe you did not reproduce the exact scenario.

Steps to reproduce:

1) On the standard desktop add a panel. It will be automatically assigned "right" orientation.
2) select the properties of that new panel. Uncheck the "Expand" option and change the orientation to "top". Now this new panel will be hanging just below the "Application" entry in the menus
3) Add a second panel. It will be automatically assigned "right" orientation.
4) select the properties of that new panel. Leave the "Expand" option checked. Change the orientation to "left" and the size to 120. Now this new panel will be on the left, but occupy only the space up until the "hanging" panel.
5) Open a new window (say Nautilus). Maximize it. Notice how it did not

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote : Beryl has been removed from Gutsy

Beryl is replaced by Compiz Fusion, so has been removed from Gutsy.

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