GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 584698
xrandr fullscreen/maximize issue
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:05:17 UTC
I have a xrandr 1.2 setup where a TFT (VGA) is positioned right of the internal laptop panel (LVDS). Right now clicking the maximize button of metacity causes the window to be streched over my LVDS and the VGA. It would be more intuitive if maximize would only stretch on the screen it is placed on and not filling both. Other information: Compiz handles this correctly.
+1 here. It's quite annoying to have a single window over different screens, maybe it's useful in some use cases but there's also a large part of user cases that it's the other way around. Maybe a gconf option on the capplet preferences would be nice.
-1 here. Our users expect their applications to span multiple monitors (left to right). Most of our users have dual monitors and some have three monitors in our high performance processing centers around the world. Having window confined to a single monitor is very annoying. :) Having the option to maximize a window across multiple monitors is a basic requirement. Since we are in the minority, we have no problem if this behaviour is not default.
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