compiz application switcher too big for 800x600

[Jud Craft]

Binary package hint: compiz

When using compiz running on an 800x600 display, using the application switcher is a little strange.

It still works, but it's too large for the screen with four or more windows open -- the box stretches off the sides of the screen.

In a multimonitor setup, you can see the application switcher over in the other monitor. It's just very unpolished looking.

[Eddie Dunn (eddie-dunn)]

I can't reproduce. It looks fine for me.

[Eddie Dunn (eddie-dunn)]

When I went down to 640x480 I noticed the behavior mentioned in the bug report.

[Jud Craft (craftjml+ubuntulp)]

Try this with more than three windows open. Usually 7 is enough.

The point is, given enough windows, Compiz will ultimately expand the Application Switcher out of the available screen space at 640x480 (which probably happens with four windows) and 800x600 (which probably happens with six or seven windows.)

What more information do we need?

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Even with 80 windows open the switcher does not expand beyond the available space on the screen at 800x600. It just makes the window thumbnails smaller and packs them in tighter instead. What version of Ubuntu are you trying this with? It looks like it is fixed in Ubuntu 9.10.

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