Ayatana Ubuntu

terminal should not resize in steps, causes problems with "window snap"

Bug #782119 reported by Gerhard Burger on 2011-05-13

This bug affects 6 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Ayatana Ubuntu	New	Undecided	Unassigned
GNOME Terminal	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
One Hundred Papercuts	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned
gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

the snapping to the right or left of for instance a terminal window is not accurate, it still leaves some space. Maximizing using snap works fine. This problem also occurs when using the shortcuts CTRL+ALT+NUMPAD. I've added an attachment to show the problem. I don't know if other programs are also affected

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Gerhard Burger (burger.ga) wrote on 2011-05-13:

snapping a terminal to the right Edit (135.6 KiB, image/png)

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Rodrick Yu (rodrickyu) wrote on 2011-05-20:

Right.png Edit (248.1 KiB, image/png)

I haven't tested every application, but this occurs for me with Terminal, Banshee, Appearance Preferences, and the Ubuntu Software Centre. Although the offset is different for Terminal in comparison to the rest. I've attached what the Ubuntu Software Centre looks like snapped to the right. On left snap, it's offset to the left by the same amount such that a part of the window is obscured.

Rodrick Yu (rodrickyu) on 2011-06-01

Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2011-06-01

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote on 2011-07-22:

In Oneiric I can't reproduce it with Banshee as far as gnome-terminal is concerned its not compiz fault, gnome-terminal resizes in steps and not like any other window.

affects:	unity → gnome-terminal
affects:	unity (Ubuntu) → gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
summary:	- unity snap not accurate + terminal should not resize in steps, causes problems with "window snap"

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Dylan McCall (dylanmccall) wrote on 2011-07-22:

Snapping to specific window sizes is completely ordinary for terminal applications, and the feature is widely supported at the window manager level. (See X11's ICCCM, 4.1.2.3. WM_NORMAL_HINTS Property: the width_inc and height_inc properties).

It is not sane to remove widely supported functionality from applications we ship, particularly by patching them individually, particularly when we have control over a perfectly good window manager where we can solve the problem cleanly.

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Gerhard Burger (burger.ga) wrote on 2011-07-30:

I think this also affects gvim (in the vim-gnome) package, but I don't now how to add it to the 'affects projects' list.

Ahmed Shams (ashams) on 2011-11-30