Bug 187563 - window pack right/down, pack grow right/down stopped respecting the external monitor
Summary: window pack right/down, pack grow right/down stopped respecting the external ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2009-03-19 04:42 UTC by boris
Modified: 2010-10-11 17:30 UTC (History)
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Description boris 2009-03-19 04:42:31 UTC
Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

The newest synaptic update (Debian unstable) caused the window pack right/down, pack grow window right/down to stop respecting the size of my external widescreen monitor (p244w, 1920x1080) and respect only my laptop screen size (Compaq pressario, 1024x768). Already for a long time I use grandr to resize my screen to 1920x1080 when using the ext. monitor and until the latest update, windows would shift/grow correctly to the edges of my ext. screen. With the newest synaptic update, even after grandr resize, windows only grow within the limits of 1024x768 patch in the top left corner of my ext. screen. I suspect the problem is in KDE window manager.
Comment 1 FiNeX 2010-10-10 18:49:19 UTC
Hi Boris. Would you like to explain better the problem? What do you mean with "pack right/down"?


P.S: are you still able to reproduce it with KDE 4.5?
Comment 2 boris 2010-10-11 13:43:44 UTC
I am using KDE 4.4.5. (Debian testing) and the problem has already disappeared.

By pack right/down I meant that I usually shuffle windows around the screen with
the keybord shortcuts. Word "pack" is the special term that the developer used for
shifting the windows up/down or left/right on the screen without changing their size.
Upon hitting the shortcut, the active window shifts in the given direction until it
hits another window or the edge of the monitor screen. The problem was that when using
external monitor with a laptop, the window movement would still respect the imaginary
boundaries of the laptop screen, even if the laptop lid was closed and the external
monitor was much bigger than the laptop screen. Like I said, the problem has already
disappeared and I am providing you this description only for the remotely probable case
that this information would be useful for some refactoring or something like that.

Regards,
boris




On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:49:21 +0200 (CEST)
FiNeX <finex@finex.org> wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187563
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> FiNeX <finex@finex.org> changed:
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>            What    |Removed                     |Added
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>              Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEEDSINFO
>                  CC|                            |finex@finex.org
>          Resolution|                            |WAITINGFORINFO
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> --- Comment #1 from FiNeX <finex finex org>  2010-10-10 18:49:19 ---
> Hi Boris. Would you like to explain better the problem? What do you mean with
> "pack right/down"?
> 
> 
> P.S: are you still able to reproduce it with KDE 4.5?
> 
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Comment 3 Thomas Lübking 2010-10-11 17:30:05 UTC
was probably an issue in kephal which has seen some overhaul in several areas.
assuming "fixed" (unmagically)

@boris: in 4.5.0 or so window packing was completely broken with the introduction of tiling, this is fixed in current versions as well