Ubuntu
maximus package

maximus leaves a gap at top in XFCE

Bug #560272 reported by CyrusCT on 2010-04-10

This bug affects 8 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	maximus (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: maximus

1) Ubuntu 10.04 (Beta 2).

2) maximus version 0.4.14-0ubuntu4.

3) When maximus hides the windows decorations, the contents of the window that begin below the window decorations should begin where the windows decorations would begin if maximus were not running.

4) When using maximus in XFCE, there is a gap between the top of an undecorated window, and the top of the screen. The size of the gap appears to be the same as the window decorations that are hidden. In other words, the window decorations seem to still be taking up space even though they are not visible. (Screenshot attached)

This effectively defeats the purpose of having maximus hide the window decorations.

I am experiencing this when I choose an Xubuntu Session, but not when I choose a GNOME session.

If somebody could tell me how to use maximus' 'Report a Problem' feature, that would be greatly appreciated.

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CyrusCT (cyrusct) wrote on 2010-04-10:

Screenshot Edit (104.5 KiB, image/png)

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Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca) wrote on 2010-08-14:

Thank you for reporting this issue. Many times this is caused by the theme being used. Could you try using a different theme (Applications -> Settings -> Settings Manager -> Appearance), (Applications -> Settings -> Settings Manager -> Window Manager). Also, is Maximus the only application with this issue?

From the screenshot, I only see Synaptic Package Manager open with Maximus marked as installed. I do not see the panels or any other borders.

Changed in maximus (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Miguel Angel Fraile (oldmike-gmail) wrote on 2010-09-26:

Maximus gap on XFCE Edit (25.1 KiB, image/png)

I can confirm this bug.

If you look carefully to the top of the picture I posted, you will see a blue bar between menu bar of Firefox and the top panel of XFCE. That blue bar is the desktop, in fact.

The same happens in CyrusCT screenshot, but he has the XFCE panel at right and the gap on the top (he has a black desktop background).

I've tested changing the theme and the windows decorations to no avail. :(

It seems to be related to the way XFCE paints the window decorations.

Miguel Angel Fraile (oldmike-gmail) on 2010-09-28

Changed in maximus (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed

Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca) on 2010-09-28

Changed in maximus (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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Luca Toniolo (toniolo-luca) wrote on 2011-06-19:

exact same issue here

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maximus/+bug/776330

with ubuntu 11.04 fresh installation

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mikey (abc-mikey) wrote on 2011-08-12:

+1 but only for XFCE on Ubuntu (Easypeasy) 10.10

I've had a look at the code for maximus but couldn't work it out. XFCE has code to remove borders from maximised windows so I thought that might be an issue but disabling it didn't help. It's amost like XFCE respects the call to remove decorations but doesn't resize the window automatically where gnome does. Though I am just guessing based on the fact I couldn't see anything in Maximus that tried to resize a window when the decorations were removed, but I was struggling to follow it so it could have been there.