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Bug 588234 - Auto-fullscreening of screensized windows
Auto-fullscreening of screensized windows
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: mutter
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: mutter-maint
mutter-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-10 10:44 UTC by Tomas Frydrych
Modified: 2018-01-24 00:34 UTC
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Description Tomas Frydrych 2009-07-10 10:44:09 UTC 
In constraints.c at line 427 is code that forces any applications that have a screen-sized window to be treated formally as fullscreen, even if they did not set the fullscreen hint. In Moblin we found this behaviour undesirable, so just patched this out. I noticed that recently the Sugar guys run into the same issue in Metacity, and Metacity was patched with a preference to turn this behaviour off (http://git.gnome.org/cgit/metacity/commit/?id=b625ec30d99b2dcf86d8fa78b09f6d04dce3a6e0). Should we follow the Metacity lead here and add the preference? (My personal leaning would be just to remove the offending code.)
Comment 1 Jon Nettleton 2009-07-18 07:55:05 UTC 
I just also ran into this bug on my version of gnome-shell and mutter that is patched to be more netbook-centric.  I believe that this code should just be removed.  There is a difference between a maximized window and a fullscreen window and we need to make sure we keep that distinction in the code.
Comment 2 Jonas Ådahl 2018-01-24 00:34:07 UTC 
This happened a bunch of years ago.