Left Panel on multi-monitor setup causes issues with window placement on display left of primary

[Dan Martin]

Symptom: With a Budgie panel position set to "Left" on the "primary" display, and another display that is arranged to the left of that primary display, dragging windows around the left display is impossible, as many parts of the display seem to be blocked. This doesn't happen if you move the position the same panel to the right, for a display to the right of the primary display, or top/bottom.

Steps to reproduce:

1) You have a multi-monitor setup, where there is at least one display to the left of the "primary" screen. I reproduced this with any combination of 2-4 screens, and on both 4k and 1080 resolutions.

2) You add a second panel and change it's position to "Left".

3) Drag any window into the left display and attempt to move it around the display.

I should mention my Budgie install is over the top of a standard Ubuntu 20.04 with apt install ubuntu-budgie-desktop. It's showing version 10.5.1.

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Known issue upstream

https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop/issues/474

It's actually an xorg issue.

The window manager is correctly blocking where space reservation has been made (the panel)

The workaround is to use auto hide or intelligent hide which does not reserve space on the screen

[Dan Martin (bithooked)]

Ok, thanks for the details. Odd that this doesn't happen in gnome-shell running on xorg. I was recreating the same panel layout I've been using in gnome for years, with the same display layout. Maybe they have a workaround?