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Nicolas
Asked: 2014-08-17 12:16:25 +0800 CST

Disable automatic vertical maximise of windows when scaled to bottom of screen

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I have the following problem: when scaling a window to the bottom of the screen, it gets automatically maximised vertically. This is very annoying as I want to decide how to scale my windows!

I found no option that triggers this.

The compiz plugin grid is disabled. Everything I find when searching for my problem, are references to grid ...

My System:

Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

Kernel 3.13.0-32-generic

Compiz 0.9.11.2

Gnome 3.8+4ubuntu3

Using Gnome Fallback Mode

screen

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Ok, finally found the reason for the automatic window maximising: the compiz resize plugin!

    The settings for this plugin contain an option called Maximize Vertically if screen edge hit in the tab General. This did the trick.

    Though I checked each compiz plugin within the windows scope a thousand times before, I did not found this checkbox earlier. This is because I searched for a setting of type active screen edge and not of type checkbox.

    Compiz resize plugin settings

    Note: due to the lack of this information within the compiz plugin settings, I guessed the underlying name of this plugin being resize!

    The german localized title is "Fenster skalieren aktivieren" which - directly translated - should be s. th. like "Activate Window Scaling" or "Activate Window Resizing". There is another plugin called "Skalieren" from which I assume, it corresponds to the underlying "scale" plugin, so "resize" should be the right one.

    If anyone can confirm or correct this, I will edit my answer.

    Update 2016-07-13

    The "CompizConfig Einstellungs-Manager" is the "CompizConfig Settings Manager" and used to adjust all parameters of "compiz".

    It may not be preinstalled on your system!

    Check this by opening a terminal and enter ccsm.

    If this command is not found, you can install it with:

    sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

    Note: this install package name was changed somewhen in the past - if you have a really old system it may be named ccsm as well, if I remember this correctly.

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  2. I find the same setting on my Ubuntu 14.04 and confirm it works too.

    Since Nicolas' screenshot is not completely English, here are my steps to find it: CompizConfig Setting Manager-> Window Management -> Resize window -> General (Tab).

    For the folks don't have CompizConfig Settings Manager installed, it could be found at: https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/compizconfig-settings-manager/

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  3. You may find conflicts in CCSM between 'Window Management' plugins.

    I wanted to stop the window filling the top half of the screen when I took it to the top edge. The behaviour seems to be determined by Grid and Maximumize. I found that even if I unticked: 'Maximumise' 'maximumize to up' and set 'Grid' 'Corners/Edges' 'Top Edge = None' it still half fills the screen when I hit the top edge.

    However if I disable the plugin 'Maximumize' it ceases this irritating behaviour.

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