On Fri, 2025-10-24 at 14:38 +0200, sj wrote: > 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".
Ah, right "tiling" is the jargon for this, I've tracked it down now for my system and have even found fixes posted for Windows, though I haven't been able to check them. Thanks for the hints... Richard > 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 > > > > > > >
