GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 106023
Cannot move window off top of screen
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Metacity does not allow user to move window off the top of the screen. The window can be moved off the left, right, and lower edges of the screen, but not the top edge.
If you move the window off the top, there's no way to get it back without knowing special keybindings.
It is still very annoying. This is exactly the kind of thing where I would a config option so that I can say: Yes, I know these keybindings, now let me move my windows where I need them. (To beat a dead horse, viewports would help with this as well.)
If you do not know the special keybindings, you cannot ever move the window far enough off the top to not be able to get it back on (assuming metacity follows Win32 wm behaviour). Alternatively, you could have a top edge 'resistance' so that you have to move it at least X pixels off before it'll go (whenever I want to move it off the top, I want to move it at least 20 or 30 pixels, usually hundreds). Alt-alternatively, a preference as Matthias suggests. I do this (move windows off top) quite often. Alt-Alt-Alternatively, if I right-click a window border, I get a window menu. Could that not have a 'rescue window' option in it? As is, it has a "Move" which when you click, doesn't require your mouse to be on the titlebar, so there's still a way for users to rescue windows somehow moved too far off the top. I know these are complex things for users. I wonder if it'd be possible to have a special "Metacity Pro" for superusers. I see GNOME2 is tending away from 200 options per GNOME component, so I bet you will be resistant to adding an option in the config. In any case, I'm begging over and over and over for this not to be called "resolved/not a bug" because it really does reduce functionality that is useful (think blinking banner ads in frames at tops of web pages -- since that's when I think about it).
I would like to have this feature in too. The biggest reason being that i do not believe i am the only one using an 800x600 monitor. Some dialog boxes, especially with the larger fonts, overflow the screen, and this means that i cannot see the bottom of the dialog. I believe it would be best to keep this as a gconf option, for the simple reasons that it is not really needed for most people, but the people that do need it, need it relativly badly. Also, the possibility for a simple user of losing his window is a problem, and therefore should be disabled for most users.
Is "Resolved/Not a bug" resolution means that 800x600 video modes are officially unsupported by GNOME?
Sorry for spam. I see -- this discussion is continued at Bug #106740.