Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 180403
Can't resize a window using the mouse if some part of it is underneath top gnome panel
Last modified: 2014-06-18 05:08:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060202 Fedora/1.5.0.1-2 Firefox/1.5.0.1 Description of problem: If you drag a non-maximized window and make its upper part "disappear" underneath the top gnome panel, you won't be able to resize it by using the left mouse button on the window borders. If you left click on any of the borders, you'll get the window system menu (that icon in the upper left corner of a decorated window) instead of the standard resize tool. Note that it doesn't happen with the lower panel. So I would guess it has something to do with the title bar/system menu being underneath the panel Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): metacity-2.13.55-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Move part of non-maximized window underneath the upper gnome panel 2. Try to resize it using the mouse 3. You get the system menu Expected Results: Should have been able to resize the window Additional info:
These bugs are being closed since a large number of updates have been released after the FC5 test1 and test2 releases. Kindly update your system by running yum update as root user or try out the third and final test version of FC5 being released in a short while and verify if the bugs are still present on the system .Reopen or file new bug reports as appropriate after confirming the presence of this issue. Thanks
Bug still present in FC5T3 (metacity-2.13.89.0.2006.02.17-2)
Well, this is the way upstream metacity behaves. Personally, I agree with you and think it's the wrong behavior, but I am not going to patch around this issue in Fedora. Feel free to report this problem in GNOME bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org).