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["Sam \"SmSpillaz\" Spilsbury" <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Anthony Francis
<455378@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sam, thank you for your detailed response! I can see what you are saying
> about fullsizing something to multiple monitors. However, in the use
> case I have I'm using multiple portrait-oriented monitors to display a
> single desktop so that creates some weirdness as the fullscreen window
> is tall and narrow.
>
> More particularly, the new problem I've noticed is restricted to resize.
> Thinking back, I don't think the behavior of fullscreen has changed - it
> is as you describe it. I simply noticed the blender issue after the
> resize issue but I've seen this behavior with other apps. It never
> mattered because before I could resize the window to take up 90% of the
> two screens, which was my preferred pattern anyway. The behavior of No
> Machine is actually a bit comical with resize, even using the Alt-F8
> trick, as it will appear to size correctly, wriggle itself a bit, then
> shake the new size off.  I'm sorry I sounded so frustrated in my earlier
> email but since No Machine doesn't do it all the time - just 95% of the
> time - I got bitten when a window I thought was stably resized suddenly,
> making the machine on the other end effectively unusable through No
> Machine.

Fix committed upstream. The new behaviour is this:

Calculate possible resize area based on the area of the output between
panels and docks. If two outputs are next to each other *exactly* (eg,
no gap between them) and there is also no panel in the way, then the
possible resize area is expanded to the output. Also if a window was
already underneath a dock that dock is ignored when calculating
possible resize area.

>
> Jeff, if I get it working I'll let you know. I've looked at the code
> changes and it *seemed* relatively straighforward but I had build issues
> on the machines I have available to me. Since this is a problem I have
> on my work machine, if I can use a workaround (e.g., running No Machine
> on my laptop's monitor screen) I have to prioritize doing normal work to
> working with Compiz. However, if I get it running I will definitely send
> it to you.
>
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> Title:
>  Can't resize windows to be displayed on several monitors
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Sam Spilsbury

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #636842
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636842

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Title:
  Can't resize windows to be displayed on several monitors