Bug 678432

Summary:	Windows are placed off the screen
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Christoph Wickert <cwickert>
Component:	metacity	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Christoph Wickert 2011-02-17 22:06:27 UTC

Description of problem:
Instead of intelligent placement for larger windows metacity in F15 alpha just places them besides existing windows which makes them appear mostly off screen.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
metacity-2.30.3-5.fc15

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot F15 alpha
2. open an application with a small window, say gnome-terminal. It will be centered
3. open a application with a large window, say system-
  
Actual results:
The bigger window is placed below (orientation, not layer) the small window and it mostly outside 

Expected results:
metacity should have the same behavior as in previous versions. The bigger window should be in front of the smaller window.

Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2011-02-18 13:52:58 UTC

Absolutely no change in Metacity that I'm aware of. Check by running 'xdpyinfo | grep dimensions' that your screen configuration is as you think it is and you don't have a large screen with only a small portion visible.

(Note that if the app you are starting in 3. changes size immediately after mapping itself onto the screen, that can also cause this problem.)

Comment 2 Christoph Wickert 2011-03-04 22:16:22 UTC

xdpyinfo reports 1024x768 as expected, and I can still reproduce the problem. But I guess this is a problem of control-center, it's only the bar at the top when it starts and then resizes when loading the plugins.