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  1. Bug #224229
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 224229

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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: [Bug 224229] Re: Quite hard to change screen resolution back to normal when resolution is set very low

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 18:34 +0000, Rick Spencer wrote:
> It's great that there's a patch upstream. However, the engineers have
> deemed this is too risky to take in 9.04. Look for this early in 9.10.
>
> Please note that the work around still works. Users must turn off compiz, by going to:
> System->Preferences->Appearance
> then choosing "Visual Effects" tab, and setting it to "None". This will turn off compiz and allow the window to be dragged above the frame. After this, they can re-enable compiz on the same tab if desired.
>

There is also a gconf key you can set that allows you to move apps
above the top of the screen under compiz. I'm not suggesting that
it be the documented way to do this, but setting it by default could be
an option.

Apparently compiz upstream don't think you should be allowed to do it,
because you can get in to a bad situation when you can't access a window
anymore, which is why it is not the default, but it would be possible to
override that. Also, I'm not sure I entirely agree with the argument
as I phrased it as you still have alt-tab etc., but I may have
incorrectly characterised their position.

I don't have references to hand I'm afraid, but I found them originally
with a minimal amount of googling.

Thanks,

James