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Martin Hope
rafrsr
Asked: 2020-07-04 09:46:20 +0800 CST
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Is there a way to set the maximum allowed size for maximized windows?

Let me explain, I wish that the maximized windows do not cover the entire desktop, but I can set a margin or area to leave a part of the desktop visible.

For example:

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I found a program that does exactly that but only for windows: Change The Maximum Window Size - gHacks Tech News. I imagine there must be something similar for Linux but I can't find it.

gnome window-management mutter 20.04
Martin Hope
kerner1000
Asked: 2018-08-26 10:40:40 +0800 CST
  • 24

When debugging UI programs, I see frequently the "Wait or force quit" Dialog.

This is super annoying, since this dialog blocks basically everything. The whole graphical system is not usable anymore until I select one of the options.

I would like to disable this completely or at least have an option to ignore this window.

gnome mutter 18.04
Martin Hope
d a i s y
Asked: 2018-05-02 01:12:29 +0800 CST
  • 6

My system stuck at ubuntu logo while booting. To resolve it, I've set nomodeset.

But now it occurs a resolution issue to 1024x768. Here are the necessary information:

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2772] (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller [103c:302a]
    Kernel modules: i915, intelfb

and

xrandr 
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 1024 x 768, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected primary 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768      76.00*

Output of

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -w 'model name'
model name  : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E4500  @ 2.20GHz

Output of sudo lshw -c display

*-display UNCLAIMED       
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:e2000000-e207ffff ioport:c000(size=8) memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e2080000-e20bffff memory:c0000-dffff

I've tried solution 1 and solution 2 but no success.

This issue occurred only after installing it, not when I choose 'Try without Installing', I don't need to set nomodeset in that case.

Intel Graphics Update Tool shows:

Checking if Intel graphics card available...
  • checking for i915 module in /sys/module
  • i915 module found
Checking if Intel graphics card available... OK
Retrieving information from 01.org...
  • fetching https://download.01.org/gfx/ilg-config.cfg
  • saving to /home/garden/.ilg-config
  • fetched 1626 bytes
  • fetched 9818 bytes
  • fetched 12301 bytes
  • looking up [Ubuntu bionic] configuration
Retrieving information from 01.org... OK
Checking distribution... Failed

Edit: I've installed xserver-xorg-video-intelandxorg-dev. I've tried acpi_osi=linux,acpi_backlight=vendor, noalpic, i915.modeset=0 also create xorg.conf file and modify file /etc/initramfs-tools/modules to add i915 and intel_agp drivers as mentioned here.

gdm intel mutter wayland 18.04