Active Screen Edges still working when disabled

[Luis Alvarado]

In the Ubuntu settings, in the multitasking, if you disable the Active Screen Edges, you can still drag a windows to a corner and still are able to resize them to the 4 corner areas.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.539
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-31.31-generic 6.8.1
Uname: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon May 20 07:06:07 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-05-15 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS "Noble Numbat" - Release amd64 (20240424)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sebastian Mares (sebastian-mares)]

Can confirm. Both Hot Corner and Active Screen Edges is always enabled despite what's set in the settings.

[yuvale (yuval-emek)]

In my case, the "hot corner" button (in the "multitasking" menu) is actually working OK. It is the "active screen edges" button that has no effect (the feature is always enabled regardless of the status of this button).

[Steve Childs (mgsteve)]

Just to add my confirmation of this bug, it doesn't matter what the buttons are set to in the settings (they were turned off on my install), it still offers to align the windows when you drag them towards the edges of the screen.

On my multi-monitor setup, this occasionally results in the window being bugged out and stuck to one of the zones if I accidentally drop them and getting them out of that state requires me to press the windows key and drag the window onto a new monitor and then I can select it again.

But on an multi-monitor setup it is really, really annoying that you can't turn these snap zones off as every time you drag a window around it offers to snap it to the edges of multiple windows.

At the time of writing the importance of this bug is "undecided", which I presume means it's not prioritized for fixing. Yes it's not world-ending, but it's a prime example of an annoying bug that is very frustrating that it appears to slip through the cracks and ends up being ignored.