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ruohtula

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From: Helsinki

Registered: 2015-06-17

Posts: 6

[Solved] How to disable "widening" of window it hitting top?

I like XFCE but the window manager has one irritating feature (unfortunately shared by some other desktops as well) that if a window is dragged using its titlebar to the very upper margin of the screen, it often suddenly widens to be as wide as the screen. Maybe this is useful to some, but I would like the window to do nothing special when it has been dragged to the top. Unfortunately I have not found any setting to turn this off. Is it possible? (Using XFCE 4.10, as it was easily obtained on EPEL for CentOS 7).

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: [Solved] How to disable "widening" of window it hitting top?

This is the tiling feature that was added to the window manager. You can turn off tiling via Settings Manager >> Window Manager Tweaks >> Accessibility >> "Automatically tile windows...". Unfortunately, this will turn off tiling at all screen edges, not just the top.

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ruohtula

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From: Helsinki

Registered: 2015-06-17

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] How to disable "widening" of window it hitting top?

This is the tiling feature that was added to the window manager. You can turn off tiling via Settings Manager >> Window Manager Tweaks >> Accessibility >> "Automatically tile windows...". Unfortunately, this will turn off tiling at all screen edges, not just the top.

Thanks! That solved the problem. I must admit I would have never found that setting. (I think the default mode was poorly chosen here).

Sideburns

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From: Trinidad, CO

Registered: 2011-03-30

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Re: [Solved] How to disable "widening" of window it hitting top?

You might want to mark this thread as Solved, ruohtula so that other members will know that they can find the answer here if they ever need it.

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