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ungutknut

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Registered: 2014-04-12

Posts: 52

Unreliable "snap to maximize" with xfwm4.12

Hi there,

since xfwm4.12 it's finally possible to drag a window to the upper border of the screen and it will maximize.

My problem is that it works most of the time but not every time: the window flickers (actualle changing from unmaximized to maximized very fast) a little as long as I keep pressing the mouse-button and holding it against the upper border and after I release the mouse-button it sometimes just falls back to it's previous (non-maximized) state. Which is kind of annoying.

So before I open a new bug at the xfce-bugzilla, I just wanted to ask around if anyone else here has experienced this issue. Probably there already is a bugreport but I wasn't able to find it?

(Xubuntu 14.04 64bit + xfce4.12 ppa)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,007

Re: Unreliable "snap to maximize" with xfwm4.12

I can't seem to replicate this issue on my system. There seems to be about a 10 pixel buffer at the screen edges that initiates the snap event - do you see this buffer? You can move the mouse while within this buffer and the window doesn't unmaximize.

It would be interesting to see a video of this - just to see how your desktop is set up (e.g. panel at the top?) and maybe a listing of your current xfwm4 xfconf settings:

xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -lv

...plus other info like:
- real hardware or virtualized environment
- video card and driver

One other thing to try: create a new account on your system, keep the settings at defaults, and see if you can replicate the problem.

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