No full screen possible when the minimal window width is higher than the horizontal resolution

[Alexander Kallenbach]

As described above. If I rotate my laptop and want to use it in portrait mode, I can only use the Gnome Calendar to a very limited extent, because e.g. full screen is no longer possible. I will attach a screenshot to clarify what I mean.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: gnome-calendar 3.30.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Dec 2 21:37:49 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-30 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-calendar
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue there is likely that the calendar minimal width is larger than the horizontal screen resolution, and in this case gnome-shell can't make it fit on screen and such refuse the action. Unsure if there is an easy solution there

[Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex)]

There other applications which are affected as well (like LibreOffice). My screen has a resolution set to 2550*1440, scaling is set to 200% (sadly it isn't possible to set scaling to 150% without activating experimental features).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

right, well libreoffice is likely in the same case, unsure what would be the alternative option there if the application refuses to bend to the screen geometry

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

If an app refuses to support such aspect ratios and resolutions then that's something only the app can fix. So reassigning to the apps.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Daniel, I disagree with that. Reading some other reports, it looks like windows handle those cases by making the 'half' screen larger to match the minimal width. Under unity7 it was not an issue either. In any case if gnome-shell refuses to do it, it could at least hint of the reason

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

OK, at scale 100% then this would not be a shell bug. Applications always have the final say in what size their windows are and then shell can't enforce otherwise unless it wilfully displays the window at the wrong size. You would notice if the window contents provided by the app don't fit in that case...

That said, maybe the apps are still willing to resize better in this case and maybe it is the 200% scale that is a problem with gnome-shell.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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