Cannot resize gnome-terminal window in gnome wayland session with mouse
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Running gnome-shell + wayland on ubuntu 17.04 here. If I have a "legacy" (X11) application, like firefox or xterm (running with Xwayland, I guess) I can resize its window normally, ie mouse shape changes into resize-signaling shape near the window borders and I can do the job. However pure-wayland clients, like gnome-terminal it simply does not work, which is very annoying no need to say. I can do the resize with eg ALT+right click and select "resize" but it's kinda more work to do a very simple task (and also it seems there is only horizontal OR vertical resize, not the both what I used to if I move the mouse near to the corner of the window).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.24.2-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-28-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Jul 14 11:43:52 2017
DisplayManager: gdm3
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-10 (734 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release i386 (20150422)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to zesty on 2017-06-20 (23 days ago)
Let's make this bug about gnome-terminal for now. Although I can't seem to reproduce the problem in 17.10, which is good news.
The bad news is that "pure" wayland clients have no server-provided window decorations by design (try 'es2gears_wayland' or 'glmark2- es2-wayland' ). I don't know much about the background of this decision but personally hope it will change in future. This might also explain why native Wayland clients don't have normal resize controls (confirmed also in the two aforementioned programs).