[regression] Horizontally resizing a vertically maximized terminal is now very slow, unresponsive.

[Daniel van Vugt]

Horizontally resizing a vertically maximized terminal window is now very slow and unresponsive. If you do it too fast then the window freezes and doesn't respond at all till you stop moving the mouse.

Strangely, this only happens for semi-maximized windows. It's nice and fast for normal windows.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Dear developers,

May I kindly ask you to take a look at this bug, and prioritize it higher? It's more than a year old, and all the action I see is the milestone keeps getting pushed back.

Compiz contains tons of eye-candy of questionable usefulness. This bug is different. The dupe of it that I reported is that the combination of two very basic features (both of which have been present in pretty much all window managers for at least a decade) cause long hangs. While trying to perform a most basic operation (resize a window), the desktop hangs for long times (5-10 seconds or even more) multiple times a day, causing me a giant amount of frustration and anger.

It's ridiculous that I can't snap a window to the left edge of the screen, and then make it wider by dragging its right edge. It's the kind of bug that makes me want to scream and run away from Linux saying it'll never be user friendly. It's by far the most annoying bug that keeps hitting me during everyday usage of my Ubuntu box, no matter what I'm using it for. It's the kind of usability bug that I believe neither Microsoft nor Apple would let in their products.

Snapping seems to involve window placement only. The bug occurs when resizing. So it sounds like something that should be extremely easy to fix for someone who's familiar with the code. E.g. simply disabling snapping for the duration of resize and restoring later would probably do.

Thanks very much!

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

r3795 indeed seems to fix it, thanks again! :)

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:compiz/0.9.10 at revision 3796, scheduled for release in compiz, milestone 0.9.10.2

[PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins)]

Fix committed into lp:compiz at revision None, scheduled for release in compiz, milestone 0.9.11.0

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.9.10+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1

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compiz (1:0.9.10+13.10.20131011-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Chris Townsend ]
  * Remove seemingly useless code in the SnapWindow::resizeNotify()
    method where a snapped window that is being resized on the opposite
    side of the snap would cause orders of magnitude more calls to
    window->resize() and kill performance. (LP: #1019139)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/patches/ubuntu-config.patch: Don't use Ctrl+Alt+KP_0 for grid
    maximize Otherwise this clashes with default minimize key. (LP:
    #1236899)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 3797
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Fri, 11 Oct 2013 06:16:27 +0000

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

marking as closed (0.9.10 series is obsolete)