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beryl-core package

  1. Bug #122970
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 122970

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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