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Bug 124015 - Allow windows offscreen by the amount they are larger than the screen
Allow windows offscreen by the amount they are larger than the screen
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 106740
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.6.x
Other Solaris
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
AP1
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-10-07 12:29 UTC by padraig.obriain
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4


Description padraig.obriain 2003-10-07 12:29:55 UTC 
It probably needs to be possible to explicitly move a window so that its
top edge lies off the top of the screen, if that's what the user wants.

The main reason for this is accessibility-- when using a large print theme,
it's inevitable that some larger dialog's controls will lie of the bottom
of the screen, and currently there's no way to bring them into view when
that happens.

I am logging this as a new bug rather than reopening bug 106740 even though
the description is the same as that bug is too long. I have tested this
with metacity from CVS HEAD, i.e. with the change to constraints.c of 6th
October 2003.
Comment 1 Rob Adams 2003-10-07 15:42:41 UTC 
you can only do that if 1) the window is undecorated, or 2) the
window's _minimum_ size won't fit on the screen.  So if the window can
be resized to fit, it still enforces the onscreen top constraint. 
Reopen this bug if and only if these conditions aren't met.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106740 ***
Comment 2 padraig.obriain 2003-10-07 15:57:11 UTC 
I have confirmed that if I increase the font size so that a dialog
does not fit on the screen then I can move the dialog up the screen so
that the bottom of the dialog is visible.