Clicking on the far-right hand side of a maximized window does not scroll

[Rich Jones]

If Firefox (or any scrolling app) is maximized, then if my mouse is on the right-most edge, it should scroll to where I click on the bar. It currently does not!

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks a lot for reporting this, however I don't fully understand what it is you are referring to. Could you please outline the steps required to reproduce this bug?

[Rich Jones (richwjones)]

It's really quite simple:

Open maximized Firefox to a page with a height long enough to warrant a
scroll-bar, looking at the very top of the page. Move your mouse to the very
rightmost edge of the screen, to an area below the scroller. Clicking should
scroll the page to that position, currently it does not. The user has to
make a minute movement to the left, apparently one or two pixels, for the
click to generate any response. This means I have to look to the edge of the
screen to scroll, I can't just move the mouse, click and keep reading the
page.

This is a really annoying aspect of Ubuntu that I noticed does not happen in
OSX. Any way to kick this to the desktop experience team?

R

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Chris Wilson <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks a lot for reporting this, however I don't fully understand what
> it is you are referring to. Could you please outline the steps required
> to reproduce this bug?
>
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> Clicking on the far-right hand side of a maximized window does not
> scroll
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> Bug description:
> If Firefox (or any scrolling app) is maximized, then if my mouse is on
> the right-most edge, it should scroll to where I click on the bar. It
> currently does not!
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[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Ah, now I get it. I think this may be an issue with GTK+.

[Rich Jones (richwjones)]

Here's an example image:
http://i.imgur.com/J5br3.png

This is with elementary theme, but it happens on the default Ubuntu theme as
well.

[Rich Jones (richwjones)]

I assume that this is happening because of the border around the window. The
border is pretty ugly (again, not present on OSX), but necessary in GTK
right now because that's how window resizing is done. I'd suggest that
instead, window resizing be done with an _invisible_ border (ideally with
the same default radius as the shadow in Compiz) and that the rendered
border be completely independent, and not present on maximized windows.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

I've just realised I've misunderstood the problem here. Removing upstream bug report.

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm not sure if this would count as a bug or not and as such I am marking this as 'opinion'.

[Rich Jones (richwjones)]

Are you going to make another upstream bug report?

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 422511, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide.

Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.