[Live CD Dapper Drake/Flight 6] Totem resizes window after start out of screen

[reirob]

After the start of Totem by clicking on media files the window is resized in a way that the window title bar is moved out of the top of the screen.

More knowledgeable users would know that by right clicking on the rest of the visible window borders they can get to the window menu, but for average users this is just a blocker.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

I'm able to reproduce your bug using Dapper 20060522.

Confirming, steps to reproduce:
1. Open Nautilus and go to /usr/share/example-content.
2. Click to open SeeUbuntu.ogg, Totem opens playing the file.
3. Close Totem.
4. Click to open SeeUbuntu.ogg again from Nautilus. The totem window title bar is not shown anymore and is hidden under the top panel. This is a usability issue. The window actions are only acessible by right clicking the taskbar or right clicking a window border.

Isn't this a window manager bug? The metacity window manager should place the window in such a way that the title bar is always visible.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

Reproducible on Dapper final.

Thsi bug also affects Kino.

[Florian Boucault (fboucault)]

A friend of mine experienced it for quite some time and solved it by setting
the position of the window I think in the file /usr/share/totem/totem.glade.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What is open on the workspace where you do those steps to get the bug? Does it happen due to the window resizing to adapt the window to the movie? Note that the right click comment is wrong, if the window bar is under the panel a left click on a border open the menu for that reason

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

according to upstream a metacity bug which has been fixed for GNOME 2.15.91

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not a totem issue

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

 metacity (1:2.15.21-0ubuntu1) edgy; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release:
     - kill usage of libegg
     - fix another C89 vs. C99 issue
     - make it so maximized windows do not have rounded corners
     - fix the heuristic for determining if windows can be made fullscreen,
       needed for WINE and possible also some legacy applications
     - make sure window features get recalculated when the screen is resized
       via XRandR
     - fitts' law fixes for titlebar buttons on maximized windows
     - react to _NET_STARTUP_ID changes, as proposed for the new
       startup-notification/EWMH spec
     - return the window to maximized state if the window was "shaken loose"
       from maximized state during a resize but the resize is later aborted
     - fix button lighting with dragged clicks
     - don't minimize in response to double clicks on the titlebar when
       minimiziation should not be allowed
     - fix some titlebar-not-on-screen constraint issues (Malone: #37706)
     - Translators: bn_IN, cs, eu, he, hi, mk, nb, ru.
   * debian/control.in:
     - bump GTK requirement.
   * debian/rules:
     - bumped libmetacity shlibs.