I find it irritating that (in Windows 11) the TYpeset Window defaults to
a position just too high for me to drag it anywhere, and that I have to:
1. find the denemo icon at the bottom,
2. right-click on the Typeset WIndow box, then
3. pick Move
4. then move the window down a trifle with the cursor keys
before I can pick it up and drag it to my second screen.
But I am probably used to it now, having had the issue for 2 years.🙂
Joe
On 24/10/2025 14:40, Richard Shann wrote:
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
