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Regression : window goes back to fullscreen when switching workspace

Submitted by Caetano Veyssières @ChameleonScales

Assigned to Olivier Fourdan @olivier

Link to original bug (#16564)

Description

In previous XFCE versions, I used the "Leave Fullscreen" button (which shows up when you enable fullscreen in some apps and hit Alt+Space). Unfortunately, supposedly since a newer version, switching between workspaces makes the window go back to fullscreen, making this feature unusable.

To give more detail, I used it with LibreOffice because it allowed me to quickly empty a Calc window of all buttons so I could place a very small spreadsheet in any area of my screen.

XFCE version : 4.12 OS : Debian 10.3

I can't test on 4.14 because Debian doesn't have it yet but I looked at the 4.14 changelog and the only fix mentioning fullscreen is: Fix: Use xinerama indices for EWMH's NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS which seems unrelated, and apparently there's no 4.13 changelog?

Version: 4.12.0