Package: xfwm4
Version: 4.3.90.2-2
Severity: wishlist
I apologize for the length of this bugreport, but I strongly feel that the new
xfwm4 maximization behavior is very stupid.
Prior to the 4.3.90.2-2 upgrade, I was using xfwm4 4.3.90.1-1 . The 4.3.90.1-1
behavior, which I strongly prefer, is as follows:
I start a terminal. I hit the "Maximise window horizontally" keybinding and
the terminal takes up the width of the screen. I then hit the "Maximise window
vertically" keybinding and the window takes up both the width and the height of
the screen (the window is effectively "maximized")
The current behavior, which I dislike for reasons I'll outline below is as
follows:
I start a terminal. I hit the "Maximise window horizontally" keybinding and
the terminal takes up the width of the screen. I then hit the "Maximise window
vertically" keybinding and the window reverts to its original size. When I hit
the "Maximise window vertically" keybinding again, it then takes up the height
of the screen, but has its original, non-maximized width. In order to end up
with the window completely maximized, I have to hit any of the "Maximise..."
keybindings once, at which point the window will return to its original size,
and then hit the "Maximise window" keybinding, at which point it will expand to
fill the screen.
I considerably dislike the new behavior because if, as often happens, I have a
full-width, normal-height window and need to quickly look at something longer
than the 24 lines of the terminal height, I have to either resize the window
manually or hit two separate keybindings, followed by two separate keybindings
when I want the window to go back to the size I was using before I needed it to
be tall. Before, I could just hit one keybinding, look at what I needed to in
the tall window, then hit the same keybinding to get back to the original
height (without loosing any width throughout the entire process).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.6
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages xfwm4 depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.1-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.6-7GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.2.4-1The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig12.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-2FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.17-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-01.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm66.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Session Management
ii libstartup-notification0 0.8-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-6 X11 client-side library
ii libxcomposite11:0.2.2.2-3X11 Composite extension library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library
ii libxdamage1 1:1.0.2.2-3X11 damaged region extension libra
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfce4mcs-client3 4.3.90.2-1 Client library for Xfce4 configure
ii libxfce4mcs-manager3 4.3.90.2-1 Manager library for Xfce4 configur
ii libxfce4util4 4.3.90.2-2 Utility functions library for Xfce
ii libxfcegui4-4 4.3.90.2-1 Basic GUI C functions for Xfce4
ii libxfixes31:3.0.1.2-4X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi61:1.0.0-5 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr22:1.1.0.2-4X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4X Rendering Extension client libra
ii zlib1g1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages xfwm4 recommends:
ii xfce4-mcs-manager 4.3.90.2-1 Settings manager for Xfce4
ii xfwm4-themes 4.3.90.1-2 Theme files for xfwm4
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