action-middle-click-titlebar 'toggle-maximize-vertically' instead does 'toggle-maximize'

[ebsf]

Simply, configuring the middle mouse button in dconf-editor to maximize a window vertically when its title bar is middle-clicked, causes the window instead to maximize fully.

In dconf-editor, the setting is /org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences/action-middle-click-titlebar.

The misbehaving setting is 'toggle-maximize-vertically'.

The 'toggle-maximize' setting works correctly.

Ubuntu 20.04.4
gnome-shell 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2

Expected behavior: Configuring the middle mouse button to maximize vertically would cause the window to maximize vertically.

Behavior: Configuring the middle mouse button to maximize vertically instead causes the window to maximize fully, i.e., both vertically and horizontally.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-40.45~20.04.1-generic 5.13.19
Uname: Linux 5.13.0-40-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.23
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Date: Thu Apr 21 06:50:07 2022
DisplayManager: gdm3
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-04-09 (12 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210819)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1698083, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[ebsf (eb-9)]

This actually is not a duplicate bug because I have successfully mapped ctrl-alt-v to maximize the active window.

This bug concerns the gsettings configuration of the middle mouse button.

Specifically, that the selected option behaves as another.

FYI, this arose because the interface no longer maximizes vertically when the top edge of a window is dragged to the top of the screen.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Sure sounds like bug 1698083, which I have been tracking for years. Maybe that bug just needs rewording...

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Note that some middle click associations do work. I've now updated bug 1698083 based on the information you provided. Thanks.

[ebsf (eb-9)]

Except that I'm experiencing the issue with X, not Wayland.

Also, Ubuntu 20.04, not Fedora

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Bug 1698083 is about X running on Ubuntu. I am experiencing it in X on Ubuntu 20.04 right now.