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Bug 151839 - Spatial window placement is partially off screen
Spatial window placement is partially off screen
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 143145
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.9.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-09-04 17:00 UTC by Toby Woodwark
Modified: 2006-02-01 17:49 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description Toby Woodwark 2004-09-04 17:00:43 UTC 
(Using nautilus-2.6.3-7mdk metacity-2.8.1-2mdk)

Have a spatial window open at the left (or right) edge of the screen.  Make it
less than 200 pixels wide.  Now open a directory in that window, one which has
no stored window position (e.g. a new directory).

The new window will be by default about 500px wide, *horizontally centred* on
the parent window.  This puts its left (or right) edge off the screen.  With
many metacity themes (e.g. Esco) this can lead to the window title being
offscreen.  Also, window controls will be unavailable.

Suggested fix: stop horizontal centring from overrunning screen borders.

NB this is not a metacity bug AFAICT.
Comment 1 Murray Cumming 2005-12-21 10:16:13 UTC 
I can't reproduce this with Ubuntu Dapper. For me the new window has its left edge exactly on the edge of the screen.
Comment 2 Elijah Newren 2006-02-01 17:49:09 UTC 
This is a metacity bug, but one which has been fixed in Metacity >= 2.13.2.  It's a mixture of bug 122196, bug 136307, bug 142016 & 143784, and bug 143145 (and kind of a separate one, but which I specifically address in the documentation writeup on the issue).  Anyway, it was one of the things fixed by the constraints rewrite.  I think 143145 is the closest, so I'll mark as a duplicate of that bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143145 ***