On XFCE4 it's the 'Window Manager Tweaks > Accessibility > Automatically tile windows when moving toward the screen edge' setting, so maybe something like "automatic screen tiling" would be a correct description for Linux. I know Windows calls the feature "Snap Layouts". I have no idea about other systems, I've first seen it on Windows a few years ago, but they might have been copying from someone else too.
To my best knowledge, you can at least disable it everywhere, even Windows. Ekkor: 2025. október 24. 13:28:51 CEST, Richard Shann <[email protected]> írta: >On Fri, 2025-10-24 at 12:07 +0200, sj wrote: >> I haven't noticed this from Denemo, but it's probably that's the >> normal behaviour of XFCE and the Windows 10 WM at least that pulling >> a window to the top maximises it. Are you sure it's not coming from >> the window manager? > >It was just that it happens on both Windows and the Mate desktop (under >Debian) so I started to think it might be GTK; but perhaps it's just >that the designers are copying each other... > >> >> Or is it also maximising on programmatic repositioning? I haven't >> checked anything like that. > >No, nothing like that, just that you can't just happily drag the window >where you want it without it suddenly maximising on you - you do get a >little warning admittedly, but it is quite annoying. People probably >know how to tell the various window managers to give over, but without >the thing having a name it is difficult to tell... >sigh! >Richard > > >> >> >> Ekkor: 2025. október 24. 11:45:14 CEST, Richard Shann >> <[email protected]> írta: >> > While reduction in the clunkiness of Denemo is a hot topic, does >> > anyone >> > know what is behind the "feature" whereby positioning a window at >> > the >> > top of the screen makes the window maximise? >> > Denemo suffers from this both on Windows and on Mate Desktop (and I >> > suspect everywhere else). I suspect it must be a feature of GTK, >> > but >> > since the GTK documentation was "improved" it is very difficult to >> > find >> > out. To make matters worse, I can't think of a way to describe this >> > feature succinctly so as to make it the target of an internet >> > search. >> > Any ideas? >> > >> > Richard Shann >> > >
