GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 648984
Should allow tiling to TOP and BOTTOM of display on portrait-displays.
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:49:54 UTC
Gnome-shell only allows tiling to the LEFT or RIGHT, which makes sense on a landscape display, especially a widescreen landscape display. On a widescreen *portrait* display, tiling to the LEFT or RIGHT is largely useless. Instead, it would be good to tile to the TOP or BOTTOM. Note that this might conflict with the maximize "hotspot", chiefly because the maximization target area has no association with "maximization" per se. Other side of the coin is that it might not be too bad to move that hotspot for a portrait display to the left/right of the display. There's a tough design issue there. I will point out that this conflict is less of an issue for me (and i suspect most portrait users), because the portrait display is on the secondary monitor, which doesn't get the usual gnome-shell trimmings.
Except when the portrait display is on a tablet, or a convertible tablet/notebook combo.
Is there any work happening on this topic? I can help out with testing possible solutions. I also have the second screen in portrait mode.
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