But the only way to get your title bar off-screen in the first place is
by Alt+dragging the window.. which means it can't go off-screen if the
user doesn't know right click or modifiers in the first place...
I think you've got your chicken and egg mixed up :)
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Resize window broken when
...In the upper-left corner of (most) any window, right-click and select
Move. Move your mouse upward and watch the titlebar disappear.
To me, this bug is clearly that of confusion as the end-result to the
user. At the very least, if you can't resize the window when the
titlebar is offscreen,
Jordan Erickson wrote:
...In the upper-left corner of (most) any window, right-click and select
Move. Move your mouse upward and watch the titlebar disappear.
I'm sorry, but you are mistaking.
When you select move, and go upwards, the window resizes and goes
halfway down. You are unable to
Not on my system (Ubuntu Gutsy i386 w/Compiz enabled)...
This was a matter of preference last time it came up in a bug report,
IIRC. I dunno if any Gnome/Ubuntu people are even willing to fix it
since, to some, it's not really a bug.
- Jordan
Mark Schouten wrote:
Jordan Erickson wrote:
...In
Thank you for your bug, that's not a bug but a feature to allow users to
move their windows back on screen when the titlebar is not reachable,
the right click action is not considered discoverable enough
** Changed in: metacity (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: gnome-desktop = metacity
Importance:
Sebastien, what can I do to make this a feature request to remove then?
I personally cannot see how this is an intuitive feature at all - I am
a seasoned Linux professional and this feature had me very confused
when I wanted to do nothing but resize my window while the titlebar was
off-screen. It
Upstream read this too, you know :) I'll talk to my fellow-developers
and look in the changelog and try to figure out what to do. (I don't
remember this going in, so I don't have any recollection of whether this
is the result of a compromise reached after some great primordial battle
of the First
Sebastien was correct: it was a feature added in the constraints-
experiments branch at revision 2275 on 14 November '05:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/metacity/branches/constraints_experiments/src/frames.c?annotate=2275
which made it into trunk along with everything else from that branch
five
Thomas (and all), thank you very much! This is great. I was fumbling
around for days wondering why I'd get a context menu (along with the
actual 'move' mouse cursor). Weird behavior IMHO. There's got to be a
better way (like ALT+click/drag).. =)
- Jordan
Thomas Thurman wrote:
Sebastien was
New users often don't know about right click or modifiers on the
keyboard. That might look easy for somebody using computers a lot but
take some minutes to ask to some standard users to move a window where
the title bar is no displayed, a non negligable number will likely not
figure what to do
Confirmed. This is a bug on amd64 also.
** Changed in: gnome-desktop (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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** Attachment added: Screenie of context menu when trying to resize Firefox
while titlebar is offscreen
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