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N0rbert
Asked: 2018-10-31 08:18:33 +0800 CST

Can't move/snap Nautilus window to occupy left or right half of the 1366x768 screen - is it just me?

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I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with GNOME Shell.
Nautilus does not want to occupy 50% (left or right) of the screen sized at 1366x768.

Snapping Nautilus window in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on GNOME Shell

Other applications (such as GNOME Terminal, Eye of GNOME, Gedit) are normally snapping to the left/right half of the screen.

But Nautilus can be resized to the width lower than half of screen (I can get 650 px, which is smaller than 1366/2 = 683 px).

The first usable screen resolution seems to be 1400x1050, then goes 1440x900. But large amount of current devices are still using 1366x768.

Is it just me?

Updates:
1. standard shortcut Super+← or Super+→ do not work too.
2. I reported bug 1801317 to launchpad which has linked upstream bug 411.
3. It does not work on GNOME FlashBack session too.

gnome nautilus 18.04

6 Answers

  1. It would appear that this has something to do with the sidebar. My guess is it's a bug.

    If you turn the sidebar off, the snap starts working as it should. Try the following commands from a terminal window.
    Edit: The commands I've written out below hide and show the sidebar which can more easily be accomplished (as pointed out in comments) by simply pressing F9.

    Turn the sidebar off:

    gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.window-state start-with-sidebar false

     

    Turn the sidebar back on:

    gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.window-state start-with-sidebar true

     
    While this is an answer, it's more of an option than a solution ... and probably not the solution you are looking for. It's certainly not the fix I or most other people would want, but it gives you a direction as far as reporting a bug!

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  2. This problem has disappeared when I upgraded Ubuntu from version 18.04 to 18.10. So unless you want to stay on 18.04 (because of the LTS for example), the upgrade is a clean solution.

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  3. Note: This is Only Workaround

    my screen resolution is 1366x768 Ubuntu 18.04.1

    pratap@i7-6550U:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
eDP-1 connected primary 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
   1366x768      60.00*+

    when the sidebar is turned off, its working, it gave a clue that the width of the nautilus window is changed or system is calculating its width differently.

    i have made changes to dock settings and see if its working in the same way..

    Please don't make (you may not need) these below settings till you read the full answer.

    by setting the dock to Auto-hide from settings

    or with any of below settings

    gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock dock-fixed false
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock dock-position BOTTOM
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock dock-position TOP

    in all the above cases width of the screen differs according to the system calculation.

    or by installing dash-to-panel extension it works.

    then the best way, i tried to change the width of the dock from default 48 to 47.

    gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock dash-max-icon-size 47

    pratap@i7-6550U:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock dash-max-icon-size
48
pratap@i7-6550U:~$ gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock dash-max-icon-size 47
pratap@i7-6550U:~$

    it worked. i guess this is the best way to achieve by changing the least.

    enter image description here

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  4. This same thing happens on Debian 10 (now stable) if I use GTK 3 theme Qogir. Other themes don't produce the same behavior. So problem must originate from the theme...

    Try changing your theme and you might save this problem. That's what I did. But instead I would love to know how to fix the theme Qogir, which is otherwise insanely good.

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  5. Best Answer

    Another solution is to install a different file manager, for example my personal favourite alternative (and very similar to nautilus) file manager is Caja. You can simply type "caja" into software center and download from there. Caja has no snap problems.

    However, there are some other applications that have the snap in problem, such as Discord, that this will not fix.

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  6. More user-friendly solution would be to install Unity instead of GNOME Shell:

    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-unity-desktop

    then select Unity session on the login screen and use Nautilus window snapping as before:

    Snapping Nautilus window in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on Unity

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