Window covers the full screen in normal mode.

[Jose Maria Perez]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

When I open firefox I expect the window to be shown maximized but with the title bar visible right under the top panel, but the window fully covers the screen instead. It extends over the upper and the lower panels (I am using gnome desktop).
I cannot access the desktop. The title bar is out of the screen, so I cannot minimize, restore, resize the window by pulling the borders or even close it. The menu bar is visible. The only method to exit firefox is through the menu option File>Exit .
When I press F11, firefox goes to real full screen mode. The buttons bar scrolls up disappearing from the top of the screen. Then when I press F11 again, firefox goes to normal mode and the title bar is now shown again. Although this does not happen always. Some tomes I have to cycle press F11 four or six times.
I am using Ubuntu 8.04 with compiz-fusion, Compiz window manager and GTK window decorator. I have wobbling windows active.

This failure is spureous

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 14 18:33:08 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:05:50PM -0000, Jose Maria wrote:
>
> When I open firefox I expect the window to be shown maximized but with the title bar visible right under the top panel, but the window fully covers the screen instead. It extends over the upper and the lower panels (I am using gnome desktop).
> I cannot access the desktop. The title bar is out of the screen, so I cannot minimize, restore, resize the window by pulling the borders or even close it. The menu bar is visible. The only method to exit firefox is through the menu option File>Exit .
> When I press F11, firefox goes to real full screen mode. The buttons bar scrolls up disappearing from the top of the screen. Then when I press F11 again, firefox goes to normal mode and the title bar is now shown again. Although this does not happen always. Some tomes I have to cycle press F11 four or six times.
> I am using Ubuntu 8.04 with compiz-fusion, Compiz window manager and GTK window decorator. I have wobbling windows active.

does disabling desktop effects help?

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[Peter Bubenik (peter-bubenik)]

This also happened to me. I am using Ubuntu 8.04. Switching System -> Preferences -> Appearences -> Visual effects from Normal to None fixes the problem. After switching back to normal, things are ok (for now).

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

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Peter Bubenik wrote:
| This also happened to me. I am using Ubuntu 8.04. Switching System ->
| Preferences -> Appearences -> Visual effects from Normal to None fixes
| the problem. After switching back to normal, things are ok (for now).
|
Peter, this would than be an issue in Desktop-effects (Compiz) and i
will open task until someone can tell me other wise, I would also like
the original reporter to confirm this happens on in Compiz

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Sincerely Yours,
~ John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito
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[Jose Maria Perez (jose-maria0)]

John,

As I mentioned in my first report, the problem does not happen always, I do not know how to reproduce it on purpose.
I could deactivate compiz temporarily and check whether the problem shows again, but I think a negative response would not evidence that the origin of the problem is compiz. I personally suspect it is a combination of causes.
I have not experienced this problem with any other application, only with Firefox. I use compiz with all applications and the only strange behaviour I see is that related to large vibration of wobbling windows when trying to dock to the pannels.
As I also mentioned in my report, when the problem is showing, there is no access to the main menu in order to deactivate compiz visual effects to check if the problem persists after.

Thank you for your interest
Best regards

- Jose

[Jose Maria Perez (jose-maria0)]

The problem does not show up when starting firefox with special visual effects set to none.
When the problem is present, pressing F11 to go to full-screen mode and F11 again to go back to normal mode fixes the problem.

- Jose

[Jose Maria Perez (jose-maria0)]

I do not have the problem since my last post.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 06:43:26PM -0000, Jose Maria wrote:
> I do not have the problem since my last post.
>

Thanks for the update. Reopen if this issue reappears ...

 affects ubuntu/compiz
 status invalid

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status invalid

 - Alexander

[Glenn Louttit (glenlout)]

I had a similar problem. I too switched from normal to none in the System's / screen appearance / visual effects tab and this seemed to rectify the problem.

Thank you to those who offered this advice.

[Jose Maria Perez (jose-maria0)]

The problem is repeating again since two or three weeks.

- Jose

[Judge (screwdriver-m)]

I am having the same problem with Firefox. When you enable the Rotating Desktop Cube and open Firefox, the browser covers the entire screen after navigating a bit. You cannot access the minimize, maximize and close icons in the upper right-hand corner of the browser and you also cannot access any of the Ubuntu menus. You need to close Firefox to gain access to the Ubuntu menus.

If you go to Edit > Preferences in Firefox when this happens, you can get the minimize, maximize and close icons in the upper right-hand corner of the browser to reappear along with the Ubuntu menus.

If you switch the Visual Effects in Screen Appearance to "None," the problem goes away as others have reported.

[loftarasa (loftarasa)]

I'm experiencing the very same problem while running Ubuntu Hardy Heron with Compiz enabled. This only started happening a few days ago, possibly after an automatic update. I haven't messed with any of Compiz/Emerald settings in quite a while, nor did I change anything in Firefox; as a matter of fact, I don't think it could be caused by user set preferences.

I believe disabling visual effects, as effective as it may be in preventing the bug, is not a valid solution for the issue. Firefox 3 and Compiz are both shipped with Ubuntu and should work together seamlessly.

Furthermore, I just noticed that opening a new tab from an external link (say, a link sent to me on Pidgin) will in fact remove the titlebar and move the window below the top panel thus hiding the menubar.

I'd like to know how to provide a proper debug log for this issue as it seems to be happening everytime I run Firefox and can easily be reproduced, apparently.

- André

[vivekritu (vivekritu)]

I am facing the exact problem. Thank you for the F11 solution, that works but is annoying. I also believe it is a bug.
-- Vivek

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

This bug has been confirmed multiple times with default compiz parameters on Hardy. This bug is also reported as bug 235900 which contains steps to reproduce it. Therefore, I set this bug report as a duplicate of bug 235900. Any further discussions about that bug report should take place in bug 235900. Thanks for your contribution to ubuntu.

[Jeffrey Flaker (jflaker)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/99740
Bug 99740 has a fix