This happens in 12.04 too. It now looks like the string "toggle- maximize-vertically" is being put into gconf. The dashes should be underscores though; correcting it to "toggle_maximize_vertically" makes things work as expected.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/305558 Title: vertical maximize when double clicking on titlebar Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome The menu System/Preferences/Windows opens a dialog which has an option to set the double click behaviour for when one double clicks in the window title. Setting this to Maximise vertically does not work correctly. The window is still being maximised in all directions. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/305558/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp