Wrong window geometry when snapping to left or right

[cipricus]

Expected behavior: dragging the window to the left or right edge of the screen: the window takes left or right half of the screen. - This can be seen with many applications.

What happens after a recent late February or early March 2017 update is:

- dragging the window to the left edge of the screen: the window takes about 5/6 of the screen from left to right and 3/4 of the screen from bottom to top

- dragging the window to the right edge of the screen: the window takes about 5/6 of the screen from right to left and 3/4 of the screen from bottom to top.

Dragging the window to the upper edge of the screen works as expected: the window is maximized.

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

I am not getting this using the compiled source (As I have multiple desktops, I use <Ctrl><Super><RightArrow> and <Ctrl><Super><LeftArrow> to tile the window). What is your screen resolution? It might have something to do with the recently imposed minimum window dimensions for Files.

[Gre0 (gre0)]

Same problem after the last updates.
Screen resolution is 1600x900.

After changing resolution to 1920x1080 it works as expected and when i go back to 1600x900 the problem is back.

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

The minimum window size for Files was recently set to 910 x 640 so when the screen resolution is 1600 x 900 the tiled size of 800 x 900 would be too small. I think this minimum size will have to be rethought so that it is dependent on the screen resolution.

[Gre0 (gre0)]

Theoretically you are right...but now i'm confused because of my setup...

I've set a resolution of 1600x900 (because 1920x1080 is to small) and like you said, it should not be possible. But why i can tile the windows manually with the mouse to left or right...without the 'snappy bling bling behavior' ?

After this i made a screeenshot of the active window...it says, the window is ~910x1024 !?
Does this has something to do with the native resolution of the screen?

Btw...switchboard also does not tile correctly.

[Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)]

I am not sure why there is different behaviour depending on how you tile the window - something to do with the window manager I guess. Anyway, the minimum window size for Files is being reduced to 500 x 300 which should fix the problem. I'll look into the switchboard problem but it will need to be reported/fixed in that project.

[cipricus (cipricus)]

@jeremywootten - My case for <Ctrl><Super><RightArrow> and <Ctrl><Super><LeftArrow>:

- when the window is maximized: they do nothing at all

- when the window is not maximized (is in the middle of the screen): one does nothing, the other triggers a short flicker (and nothing else)