windows ignore Panels in multi-monitor setup

[axure]

Expected behavior:

When a new application window is created and positioned at the top of the sceen
or when an existing window is switched to full-screen
it should snap to / touch the Panels with its external edges.

Encountered behavior:

In a multi-monitor setup, windows ignore Panels and touch / snap to the edges of the screen instead. The effect is that the Panels obscure important parts of the windows (top title bar with minimize/maximize buttons and often times a status bar at the bottom).

It's extremely annoying, because you loose the ease of control over your windows. (The workaround, I just discovered, is to use the Alt-key with mouse buttons, which provides similar functionality to the top bar. But, obviously, this is absolutely insufficient.)

Also, I find it quite an important problem, as multi-monitor setups are more and more popular. Partly because monitors became dirt cheap, partly because many people don't have desktops, but connect their laptops to full-sized monitors at home (as I do).

EDIT: OK, it doesn't always happen. Perhaps it's limited to Ubuntu sessions during which monitor settings have been edited. So perhaps after rebooting Ubuntu will behave itself.

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue, in the default Ubuntu install, that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of this project.

- This is a bug and not a papercut
For further information about papercuts criteria, please read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut.

Don't worry though, this bug has been marked as "Invalid" only in the papercuts project.

[Vish (vish)]

What graphics card are you using?

[Vish (vish)]

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