Xubuntu: applications is shown sometimes as maximazed

The same problem with Pidgin Window - icons are different.

Attention: After closing Thunderbird\Pidgin when they have "two-windows" icon (please look at picture at Thunderbird) - Next Launch of Thunderbird\Pidgin become maximized! 100% reproducible.

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Thank you for your bug report.

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Thanks, Charlie. Feel free to ask me to open bugs for Thunderbird and Pindgin if it is their implementation problem.

Thanks for reporting this issue. I notice your panel is vertical. The icons as shown in the image are for Thunderbird, maximized; for Firefox, normal window not maximized. If you click the icon in Thunderbird, does the window change? Also, if you click in Firefox, does the window move to the right and the icon change to match Thunderbird? Is this reproducable if your panels are placed horizontal, as installed originally?

I could not reporduce this using Xubuntu 8.10 with horizontal panels.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for desire to help, and I attached screen-shots step by step.

As you asked - I turn panel to the top - as it was by default and closed all applications before hand.
Screenshot-1.png - Thunderbird and Pidgin - with wrong icons (Amarok is example of correct window, FireFox works fine too)
Screenshot-2.png - result of click upon Thunderbird maximize icon
Screenshot-3.png - result of click upon Pidgin maximize icon
Screenshot-4.png - result click on Maximize icon for Thunderbird and Pidgin - return them to normal state.

even after restart with vertical menu - behavior the same:
0. Restart PC
1. Launch Pingin
2. It is launched with wrong Maximized icon
3. Close and Launch again.
4. Pidgin appear as maximized. Click on maximize icon to get window normal state.
5. Close Pingin. --- from this point there is a circle to point 1.

I could not reproduce this bug on my laptop with Xubuntu 8.10 :(.

Feel free to mark bug as invalid. It seems to be my local problems that extremely annoy me.
Thanks for help to investigate the problem.

Does this happen only in a specific language? I use only English here. If this is not English, which language is it happening in?

I would rather not close a bug if it is valid, even for one person. Sometimes it just takes a little more effort to clarify and confirm.

I use two languages of the keyboard: English(default) and Russian
Xubuntu UI is English completely, no additional language packs. I did not switch to Russian layout.

My laptop has the same configuration and Pidgin and Thunderbird works fine. I did not notice When this problem appear, I cant confirm that this problem exists after Xubuntu 8.10 installation.

Do you have more ideas? how to find out the root of the problem.

As workaround I think about "devilspie".

I can confirm this bug in Jaunty 9.04 (development version). Almost every window will initially open with the maximized icon, even though the window is not maximized. Clicking the icon will maximize the window. Clicking again will un-maximize the window and cause the icon to correct itself. I am unable to find anything in logs that will help fix this bug.

Is this issue still reproducible in jaunty with xfce 4.5.99.1? Thanks.

Confirmed that this is happening in Jaunty as of 2009-02-06 daily images. The difference is now I can reproduce it with almost every application opened.

This happens if at least one windows dimension is larger than the screen resolution (for example, in the screenshots Roman provided you can see that both Firefox and Pidgin are clamped to the maximum possible height because they requested a window size larger than the screen resolution.
(feel free to confirm that assumption with you own tests please)

In GNOME this automatic clamping and automatic enabling of the Maximized state will happen only if *both* window dimensions exceed the screen resolution. Which is still not very nice, and I consider it a bug, since I don't want my windows forced into Maximize mode - I have to manually un-maximize it in case the window size decreases (imagine an image viewer with zoom-out functionality).

I can see that this automaximize function probably has been implemented as a failsafe, in case a window requests an unreasonable initial size, so it will be forced/clamped to screen resolution this way. However, this is not always what the user wants.

Enabling Maximize mode with only one window dimension exceeding screen resolution (=the current xfwm4 behaviour) could be seen as either an even more restrictive "failsafe" - or a bug. I vote for the latter :o)

Related to bug #139829 (but not identical). The other bug describes a problem where maximizing and unmaximizing a window makes it forget its original dimensions, depending on whether the double-click-titlebar or the maximize button is used.

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