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Hardy Alpha 1: Maximize button does not maximize window completely.

Bug #173734 reported by Quan
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compiz (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
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ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
New
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop

This is the problem for Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 1:

When clicking the *Maximize* button on the top right-hand corner, the window of application only maximized to the width of the screen but not the height. This happened to all applications that I had opened: terminal, OpenOffice.org, Firefox, etc.

I also install XFCE4 desktop and KDE because I want to see if the problem was related to Xorg since I copied the xorg.conf -- which was missing from the initial HD installation -- from Gutsy. The problem only appeared when I was in Ubuntu, not KDE or XFCE.

Although this was not a very serious bug, I believe it was annoying enough to report.

Just a side note: after installating to the HD and after doing *apt-get update && apt-get upgrade*, I was able to run *dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg* to generate a new xorg.conf and noticed it did create a backup copy of the file. This was not possible before the upgrade.

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Kacper Krupa (pagenoare) wrote :

i have it too

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Kacper Krupa (pagenoare) wrote :

if i minimalize, and maximalize from a panel it's good, but when i click on the window it return to *half* height

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Kacper Krupa (pagenoare) wrote :

it only happens when you have turn on visual effects

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Quan (gtee96) wrote :

I can confirm what pagenoare said:

1. Maximize and unMaximize by right-click on the program from the panel work
2. Set 'Visual Effects' to 'None' solve the Maximize/unMaximize problem.

By the way, the 'Visual Effects' was set to 'Normal' for my installation as default. I have a ATI Radeon 9600 Pro with 128MB. I include this information because I think Ubuntu installer choose the default setting for 'Visual Effects' based on what the video card can support it.

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Vincent (vinnl) wrote :

Apparently multiple people can confirm this bug. The bug also seems to be related to the Visual Effects, so I marked compiz as also affected.

Changed in compiz:
status: New → Confirmed
Iulian Udrea (iulian)
Changed in compiz:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Travis Watkins (amaranth) wrote :

Are you using dual monitors with different resolutions in clone mode? Otherwise there is also a known problem with intel chips that enable the VGA output even if nothing is hooked up (and even if no VGA port is available).

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Ian Hinder (ian-hinder) wrote :

This bug might be a duplicate of 123205; perhaps this is the known problem referred to in the previous comment?

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mayank (myankee) wrote :

I have problem with compizconfig - all applications start mostly with maximized windows filling up the screen, but if anything clicked with mouse within the application, including the compizconfig window itself, the whole application suddenly becomes small and fills up only about 70% of the screen. The max button then does not work as such- as nothing much happens.

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