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Changing the way window placement is done
Status:
RESOLVED: INVALID
Severity:
enhancement

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Description Geralt 2009-01-25 22:36:40 CET
Hi,

currently I find myself replacing almost every window that is not maximized, after it is opened. Because the window placement algorithm is only looking for a free spot. This often leeds to two windows almost next to each other but some pixels apart, or sometimes one even sits a bit lower than the other.
Or a window is placed near a screen border but does not snap to it.
But what I did notice is that the space between two windows or a window and a screen border is very close in these cases and just clicking it and moving it one stap snaps them together.

So I think that running the snapping after placing a window (not enforced but optional, I don't know maybe some people prefer the way it currently is) would already be sufficient to eliminate almost every if not every single one of these cases :-)
I hope that's not too a big change.






Geralt.
Comment 1 Andreas Schneider 2011-08-01 23:52:37 CEST
Duplicate of bug 5785.

Bug #4857

Reported by:
Geralt
Reported on: 2009-01-25
Last modified on: 2020-05-21

People

Assignee:
Olivier Fourdan
CC List:
2 users

Version

Version:
4.5.93 (4.6 beta 3)

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