use metacity snapping behavior

[Felix Dietze]

Binary package hint: compiz

I'm using Ubuntu 8.10.

When activating the visual effects, the window snapping behavior in Compiz is not the same as it is in Metacity.

To try this out:
open two windows (I did it with terminals, one a little bit bigger than the other) and move them to figure out, how the snapping works. Then switch the visual effects and do this again. Do you notice the little differences?

I think it should be exactly the same behavior in both window managers. And I think the metacity one is much better.
If needed I can point out the exact differences.

[Nerd_bloke (nerd-bloke)]

This had previously been fixed in Bug #88733, seems like a regression

[Neil Broadley (scaine)]

As Nerd_bloke notes, this is definitely a regression from Intrepid. If you turn on Compiz via the appearance menu, you'll have no way to override this behaviour since Ubuntu doesn't ship with ccsm by default. On small screens (well, in fact just about any screen smaller than 1280x1024), this makes moving a window pretty much impossible - the default "stickiness" of the snap means that you can't get the window away from the sides of the screen.

[Felix Dietze (felix-beerleader)]

I'm not talking here about if its switched on or off, or turned on via the appearance menu. The behavior is just different and cannot be changed to the metacity one in ccsm.

example:
In metacity when a window is moved towards another window, it stops to move when it touches the other one. When moving away again there is no effect. In compiz when moving away, it jumps.