Bug 278122

Summary:	kde resizing windows after running full screen application
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Charlie <cdbiem101>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	P.Suetterlin
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
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Description Charlie 2011-07-20 01:44:51 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

When a full screen application that changes the screen resolution exits some windows will be resized. It seems to affect the window in the upper left the most. I tried turning off maximizing windows by dragging to top and tile windows by dragging to side with no change.

I am running KDE 4.6.5 but I didn't see that in the drop box. Also the rpms are from PCLinuxOS.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Set your desktop to 1024x768 and open Dolphin in the upper left of the screen and resize it to about 800x600. Now run a full screen application like Tower Toppler that resizes to 640x480. Exit from Tower Toppler.

Actual Results:  
When you exit from Tower Toppler, Dolphin will be resized. This can be reproduced almost every time. Very rarely does it not do it.

Expected Results:  
KDE should not automatically resize windows. Earlier versions of kde 4 (4.1 I believe) did not do this.

Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2011-07-20 04:33:07 UTC

No application should resize the screen. This is out of bounds of an application. If the application requires a small resolution, you should run it in windowed mode.


Apart from that: of course KWin has to ensure that the windows are not bigger than the screen. Because of that it is the expected and correct behavior to resize the too big Dolphin window.

Comment 2 Charlie 2011-07-20 23:28:14 UTC

Ok it is a feature added sometime after version 4.2.2, fair enough. Can I change this bug report to a request for a check box option to turn this feature off somewhere in the in KDE control center?

It could be called:
 
        [] disable automatic resizing of windows when resolution changes
 
That would work for me.

Comment 3 Martin Flöser 2011-07-21 04:34:32 UTC

> Ok it is a feature added sometime after version 4.2.2, fair enough. Can I
> change this bug report to a request for a check box option to turn this feature
> off somewhere in the in KDE control center?
No, we would not implement such a feature. That just clutters the code, is difficult to maintain, 
difficult to find and has a very limited usecase.

Comment 4 Pit 2012-05-22 11:21:01 UTC

You seem to think that playing games is not a thing KDE users do. Why?
I do it a lot, and the reported 'feature' of moving and resizing application windows can be EXTREMELY annoying.

Comment 5 Thomas Lübking 2012-05-22 11:35:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 80265 ***