Open new windows in the middle of the screen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-settings (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Didier Roche-Tolomelli |
Bug Description
When opening a new new window in gnome-shell it comes up in the top left corner. This is not desireable since it creates a lot of "black" there in dark themes and it has some pixels of a bright background theme shining through due to window headerbar being rounded.
Gnome solved the "pixels shining through thing" upstream by having that corner rounded in a gnome-session. But this is not feasible in the Ubuntu session because the Ubuntu dock is there and the corner cannot be rounded.
Having new windows come up in the middle of the screen would be more pleasing visually: It doesn't look crammed (dark headerbar + dark top bar) by default and the background pixels shine only "through" if you choose to drag the window to that corner.
On the Ubuntu Community HUB Carlos Lobrano suggested to toggle a switch in Mutter to change the default position for new windows. It's center-new-windows under /org/gnome/mutter
summary: |
- [Whishlist] Open new windows in the middle of the screen + Open new windows in the middle of the screen |
Changed in mutter (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Triaged |
affects: | mutter (Ubuntu) → ubuntu-settings (Ubuntu) |
Changed in ubuntu-settings (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Didier Roche (didrocks) |
Sorry for being so picky, but it is not a glitch, it is simply the shape of a unmaximized window :)
However, if possible, having new windows opened in the center of the screen would be nice for the user.