Window snapping to corners via mouse

Bug #1825756 reported by Mike L
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Curretly, this feature simply does not exist, unless you count the buggy keyboard implementation. Please add the feature to snap windows to the bottom left and right and upper left and right corners via the mouse alone. Currently, if you manually install compiz settings, you can map the keyboard out to do this. Windows 10 and Ubuntu MATE and possibly other distros/desktop environments allow this snap behavior. Why not Ubuntu with GNOME?

Running Ubuntu 19.04 amd64. CCSM version 1:0.9.14.0+19.04.20190223.1-0ubuntu1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: gnome-shell
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-13.14-generic 5.0.6
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.04.00.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:04:00.0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 418.56 Fri Mar 15 12:59:26 CDT 2019
 GCC version: gcc version 8.3.0 (Ubuntu 8.3.0-6ubuntu1)
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Apr 21 18:49:51 2019
DistUpgraded: 2019-04-17 14:06:01,387 INFO cache.commit()
DistroCodename: disco
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: nvidia, 418.56, 5.0.0-13-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation HD Graphics 5500 [8086:1616] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company HD Graphics 5500 [103c:80de]
   Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company GM107M [GeForce GTX 950M] [103c:80de]
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-11 (161 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP ENVY Notebook
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.0.0-13-generic root=UUID=1b2784f7-5eb6-447e-bc5e-224950bc1205 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: compiz
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-04-17 (4 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/21/2018
dmi.bios.vendor: Insyde
dmi.bios.version: F.51
dmi.board.asset.tag: Type2 - Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 80DE
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 64.44
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Chassis Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnInsyde:bvrF.51:bd11/21/2018:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPENVYNotebook:pvrType1ProductConfigId:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn80DE:rvr64.44:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.family: 103C_5335KV G=N L=CON B=HP S=ENV
dmi.product.name: HP ENVY Notebook
dmi.product.sku: L3T35AV
dmi.product.version: Type1ProductConfigId
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.97-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 19.0.2-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.4-1ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.0.1-0ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20180925-2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1

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Mike L (mikerl) wrote :
Mike L (mikerl)
affects: compiz (Ubuntu) → ubuntu
Mike L (mikerl)
description: updated
no longer affects: ubuntu
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → New
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) reached end-of-life on January 23, 2020.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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