Click on the topbar invokes the enhanced tiling on maximized windows

[Krasimir Mikov]

* Impact

If you have a maximized window and click on the gnome bar at the top (on empty space, not on the clock or the icons) the maximized window shrinks and goes to the position seen in the screenshot. An orange overlay is then displayed over the top half of the screen

* Test

- Log into a GNOME session with the tiling extension enabled (a default Ubuntu session for example)
- Maximize any application
- Click in the empty space of the top panel

-> nothing should happen
(before the fix it would move the application and display an orange overlay)

* Regression potential

The patch is the event handlers from the tiling extension. The impact could be that tiling actions would trigger when they should not (as before) or not trigger when they should. Watch for any unexpected tiling behaviour and test the difference mouse and keyboard combination of tiling actions.

[Rodrigo Garcia Martin (rogama25)]

Can confirm this happens here too. Ubuntu 24.04, GNOME 46 on Wayland.

At first I thought that may be related to the Dash to Dock extension because this happens clicking the dock, but after going back to Ubuntu standard extensions the problem moved to the top bar.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Krasimir Mikov (kmikov)]

The issue was reported in the GIT project of the tiling assistant. The given workaround fixed the issue for me. https://github.com/Leleat/Tiling-Assistant/issues/327

[Jakub Klos (9v-ka2ub-3y)]

I have realized the issue today and via this ticket found the patch on github.
Attaching the patch which I can confirm works and solves this issue.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "Fix top bar tiling.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell-extension-tiling-assistant - 46-1ubuntu2

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gnome-shell-extension-tiling-assistant (46-1ubuntu2) oracular; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/git_panel_click.patch:
    - fix a bug where clicking on the top panel sometime triggers the
      tiling action (lp: #2064646)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:23:33 +0200

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

please add sru information to the description

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

sorry for that, the description has been edited now

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Krasimir, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-shell-extension-tiling-assistant into noble-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-tiling-assistant/46-1ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-noble to verification-done-noble. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-noble. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Krasimir Mikov (kmikov)]

Hi Łukasz,

I've reverted the workaround provided in the tiling assistant github in order to test the new package. After restarting Gnome I confirm that the bug reappeared.

Then I installed the deb package in the launchpad link you provided (gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant_46-1ubuntu1.1_all.deb). After restarting Gnome again I confirm that the bug is gone. Clicking the bar no longer triggers the tiling.

Thank you!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for testing!

[Joan Coll Cerdán (johanbcn)]

Yep, the -proposed package fixed the problem for me too.

Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell-extension-tiling-assistant - 46-1ubuntu1.1

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gnome-shell-extension-tiling-assistant (46-1ubuntu1.1) noble; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/git_panel_click.patch:
    - fix a bug where clicking on the top panel sometime triggers the
      tiling action (lp: #2064646)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:23:33 +0200

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for gnome-shell-extension-tiling-assistant has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.