Snap window to corner requires a miracle to detect its in the corner
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compiz (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
When you setup the snap to corner in Unity Tweak Tool, the tool indicates fairly large circles in the corners where the snapping would take place.
However, once it is setup, I have found that going to the corner prefers to snap to left, on the left top or bottom, and to the right on the right top or bottom. In fact, there are times when no matter how I move my mouse around, it will only snap to the side.
It is my opinion that the snapping should be as follows:
If you have corner snapping turned on, and you are dragging a window, and you move your mouse near the edge of the screen (within say a *minimum* of 40 pixels or 1/2"; depends on DPI), then if you are in the middle 1/3 of a side, it should snap to the side. If it is in the top or bottom 1/3 of the screen and in the middle 1/3 of the screen horizontally, then snap to top or bottom should occur. But if at top or bottom 1/3 vertically, and on left or right 1/3 horizontally, the snap should occur to that corner of the screen.
Note that to prevent the scenario where snapping might occur accidentally, I suggest that holding down any of the modifier keys (Ctrl/Alt/Shift) while dragging will specifically stop window snapping.
Also note that the above assumes that you have turned on corner snapping in the tweak tool.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: unity 7.4.0+16.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
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BootLog:
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CompositorRunning: compiz
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CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Jul 19 11:59:33 2016
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InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-19 (181 days ago)
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ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
Renderer: Software
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-05-24 (56 days ago)
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xserver.bootTime: Tue Jul 19 10:00:26 2016
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xserver.errors:
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no longer affects: | unity (Ubuntu) |
What does that mean, "no longer affects"?
This is still an issue unless something has changed that has not made it out as a fix. I pull updates daily.