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Bug 93188 - Support "shaking loose" a maximized window by exceeding a certain threshold
Support "shaking loose" a maximized window by exceeding a certain threshold
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 93586
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: GNOME2.x
Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-09-13 09:35 UTC by Daryl Stimm
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description Daryl Stimm 2002-09-13 09:35:40 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
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-13 13:39:13 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Daryl Stimm 2002-09-13 22:01:24 UTC
so is there a way to resolve this?
Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-24 20:31:40 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 93586 ***