maximized windows have titles covered by gnome-panel in twin view mode

[Sigmund Baginov]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

I have been running twin view and separate xscreens modes for a while, but after upgrading to Jaunty (read installing it for scratch) I have found that in twin view mode - with one screen above another only (eg. laptop+TV) - the maximized windows get overlapped by the gnome-panel app, so that the windows titles and control buttons are not accessible, but hidden.
Related to the gnome-panel, too, is that the gnome-panel does not often hide itself when it should be expected: for instance, a maximized totem movie should make the gnome-panel automatically disappear; but this does not happen sometimes as well.
In twin view mode with one screen on the right, no problem gets shown.

The only way to solve these minor issues is to take the gnome-panel down and/or to hide it.

FYI:
- I only run one gnome-panel per screen, generally in the upper side in every my twin view configuration, vertical and horizontal.
- xorg is running with compiz fusion and nvidia proprietary drivers v. 180.44

AFAIK it is currently a Jaunty only problem, having never experienced it with previous releases.

[[e-mail] (dakshay-deactivatedaccount)]

I think I am having a related problem as well with the same setup: one desktop over another. I have attached a screen shot. In my case, the lower portion of applications is hidden behind the lower gnome panel.

[TokyoGirl (derliebegott)]

Same problem here (twin view, two displays side by side), but only for vertical panels. Horizontal panels are OK.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your report, that's something to send directly upstream at http://bugzilla.gnome.org by someone having the issue, for forwarding instructions please read http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME, Thanks in advance.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Have you sent this upstream? May you tell us the upstream bug number so we can link the bug here? Thanks.

[Britlion (britlion)]

I'm clearly having the same issue on a multi-monitor setup.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

any news about this?

[klap-in (klap-in)]

This what i find in bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583538

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339692 - also panel between two horizontal placed screens
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598725 - says it should part of the 3.0.x milestone
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384224

[Olivier Berger (olivierberger)]

Ain't this a duplicate of #58977 ?

[klap-in (klap-in)]

That issue has the same effects.
Are the configurations also the same? People here have a Nvidia twinview dual screen setup, is that the same as xinerama? Or isn't worth a remark?

I did some tests on other computers: In any case machines without nvidia, so without twinview, are also affected.

(i use personally also a nvidia twinview setup)

[Michel Filipe (mfilipe)]

I find out a workaround! :)

Move the lower gnome panel to second screen with ALT + click-and-hold. I have attached a screenshot.