Xfwm4

xfwm4 picks bad initial window-sizes for multiple screens

Bug #178284 reported by Benson Margulies
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Xfwm4
Confirmed
Unknown
xfwm4 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xfwm4

Gutsy. Two screens, 1280x800 and 1920x1200. Xinerama. Two X screens.

Small screen at absolute +1920+0, large screen at +0+0. (I tried, really I did, to configure one absolute and one relative, but something keeps resetting it.)

New apps launched appear on the small screen that have to be resized to fix on that screen. I think that is the WM at work, but I'm sure you'll let me know if something else is to blame.

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Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. I'll forward this upstream.

Changed in xfwm4:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Changed in xfwm4:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Upstream would like to have more details on this:

" - Xinerama or 2 X screens?
 - In Xinerama, unless specified (by the application) newly mapped windows are
placed on the screen where the mouse pointer resides - But the application can
specify a position and the WM will honor this.
 - Is the window too small or too large? The WM will not make a window larger
than the screen but an application can configure itself differently
 - That leads to the last question, does this happen with all apps or just one
app?"

Thank you !

Changed in xfwm4:
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Pablo Castellano (pablocastellano) wrote :

Hello Benson.
Could you go to http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3781 and provide the information that a xfce developer has asked to you?
Thanks in advance.

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Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca) wrote :

Set back to confirmed since Benson has replied on Xfce bugzilla

Changed in xfwm4:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca)
Changed in xfwm4 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version.

Changed in xfwm4 (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Closing this report.

Changed in xfwm4 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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