multiscreen: max. window under vertical panel

Submitted by xfc..@..et.com

Assigned to Nick Schermer

Link to original bug (#7144)

Description

Setup: 2 Screens of different sizes (don't know if important), one vertical panel at a screen edge Problem: maximized windows stretch on their whole screen, also under the panel note: With horizontal panels, this seems not to be a problem.

I run gentoo and (according to emerge) xfce 4.8

Version: 4.8.0

Nick Schermer said:

If the panel between the two screens?

Please attach the output of "xfce4-panel q- && PANEL_DEBUG=1 xfce4-panel > ~/panel.log" this this is not the case.

Jason said:

Further to this. In 4.6 maximised windows would also maximise behind horizontal panels at the top and bottom of the screen if the panel was not locked.

This is the behaviour I want which has "regressed" in 4.8. Perhaps the answer here is a configuration option to select whether windows can maximise behind the panel for both vertical and horizontal panels?

xfc..@..et.com said:

(In reply to comment 1)

If the panel between the two screens?

Yes that's the point. I've now tried a horizontal layout of the screens with the panel between the screens. Maximized windows expand under the panel. Should I post a screenshot?

Please attach the output of "xfce4-panel q- && PANEL_DEBUG=1 xfce4-panel > ~/panel.log" this this is not the case.

I tried it (also with -q instead of q-) but it just closes my xserver and in the log is unchanged because my terminal emulator is closed when X is closed (lol)

Nick Schermer said:

Well if a panel is between 2 'screens' (in fact this means you have 1 screen with 2 monitors in gdk), we cannot set struts (and area expanding windows are not allowed to use), because struts are set from a screen border. Else the monitor on the other side of the panel is unusable.

Nick Schermer said:

See also http://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#id2552096

xfc..@..et.com said:

(In reply to comment 4) Well, from a developer point of view, this might make sense. But from a user's point of view, this behaviour is quite unintuitive. Maximized windows should never expand over an area occupied by a panel at a screen edge. But anyways, windows should be draggable from one screen to another (even through a panel). I see no reason why the panel 'should' behave the way it does. So please, see this behaviour as a (low-priority) bug and eventually solve it.

Nick Schermer said:

Well I can't solve it unless the wm-spec is adjusted and/or xfwm4 fixes it.

xfc..@..et.com said:

(In reply to comment 7)

Well I can't solve it unless the wm-spec is adjusted and/or xfwm4 fixes it.

So should I set the "product" to Xfwm4, or how can I report spec bugs?

Andrzej said:

What would it take to get it fixed?

I'm assuming the WM spec is of no use here so this would have to be fixed in some sort of Xfce-specific extension.

Are you aware of any other DEs allowing panels in between the monitors and handling the struts gracefully?

added 5. Multi-Monitor label

Duplicate of xfce4-panel#136 (closed).

closed

added 3. Duplicate label