GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 93188
Support "shaking loose" a maximized window by exceeding a certain threshold
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I am currently running dual 19" monitors, and my main monitor is the one on the left. Metacity likes to automaticly open all windows on the right monitor, I can deal with it, because thats the point of dual monitors (to use them both). But everytime I launch a browser or open a new window they always open maximized. And 9 time out of 10 I will move it back the the right main monitor so I can focus on it, but first I have to unmaximize and move the window. (really annoying). I filed another bug report about this before I used xinerama and I think it is alot worse now considering it happens every time I open a window. I dont like to continually maximize and unmaximize a window, it gets annoying. I know metacity's goal is to make things as tight and light as possible but this is a major annoyence. I like metacity alot, but this problem has bugged me so much I decieded to try sawfish and some other windowmanagers, they are all different and I find metacity to be the better of the bunch. This is the only problem I cant find a way to resolve. Maybe help me out with a patch or something? Im not a gtk+/C coder so I wouldnt be able to do it my self. I would need help. On my desktop I dont like to have a minimize bar on my gnome panel, so there is no way for me to "minimize" an app. So I use the shade and unshade feature for everything. When you dont use the minimize bar its really hard to switch between apps if this feature is not here. As long as I can move the window its fine, I dont need to resize it if its maximized. Thanks for any help
just enabling move on maximized windows would be wrong, but allowing a maximized window to be "ripped loose" by dragging it over some threshold, resulting in unmaximize and move, would probably be OK.
so is there a way to resolve this?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93586 ***