compiz "smart placement" creates windows overlapping two desktops
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Compiz Core |
Expired
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Undecided
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compiz (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: unity
Just upgraded to Natty and I realized that with the default setting "smart window placement" in compiz, I often get windows which overlap two desktops. This is a problem for the launcher as well, see bug 738908. I get these overlapping windows not by placing them there but they are placed like this by compiz (e.g. totem is often placed that way). I noticed that this is a problem with the "smart" window placement in compiz. "Cascade" seems a better setting, but "smart" is the default in natty.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.10-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,
Date: Sun May 1 18:34:04 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
affects: | unity (Ubuntu) → compiz (Ubuntu) |
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in compiz (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
Changed in compiz-core: | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
I think this bug together with unmaximizing a window by double clicking the title-bar shifts the window towards right)
- Bug #755842 (Non-maximized windows which sit on the border of a workspace move when called)
- Bug #762001 (Maximizing/
- Bug #751858 (Unity messes up geometry calculations)
(all of these bugs cause somewhat windows overlapping workspaces)
makes users run into the following bugs:
- Bug #776435 (Window maximizes on the wrong workspace)
- Bug #776982 (Unity launcher confused by workspace wrap around?)
- Bug #738908 (When windows overlap workspaces, launcher doesn't properly switch windows)
- Bug #726846 (windows near to the right edge of the screen inhibit the unity toolbar on the next rightmost screen)