Border around maximized windows

[Marcus Sundman]

Binary package hint: gnome-themes

The themes seem to have gotten a thin border even when maximized. Not only is this border almost invisible and completely useless, it also destroys the usability benefits (see Fitt's Law) of placing widgets at the borders (usually scrollbars, but also stuff like the panel toggle in opera).

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.
 We have instructions on debugging some types of problems. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures
At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

[Marcus Sundman (sundman)]

Uh...

> 1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,

I upgraded feisty to gutsy.

> 2. the behavior you expected, and

I expected there to be no side borders (and hoped there would be no bottom border) on maximized windows.

> 3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).

I encountered ~2 pixel wide borders on the left and on the right (and apparently also on the bottom) of a maximized window.

[Marcus Sundman (sundman)]

I just disabled and re-enabled the desktop effects and now the metacity themes don't have a left border on maximized windows! There still seems to be a 1-pixel border on the right border, though.
(Also, all gtk themes using the smooth engine seems to have a border for maximized windows hardcoded into them. At least I can't find any parameters that would affect the border when I try to modify existing themes' gtkrc files.)

[Marcus Sundman (sundman)]

No, I was wrong, there is no right border either. Great!
Now only the smooth engine makes unwanted borders. Any idea where that should be reported?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report and we are closing it. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu