Description of problem: Turn on Desktop Effects. Launch various apps. The new windows are placed at the extreme top-left corner, window decorations under the top panel. Enable TwinView. Open Firefox and maximize it in the left screen (the one with the panels). Open Thunderbird and maximize it in the right screen (the one without panels). Open another app on top of Thunderbird. Now click on the Thunderbird tab on the bottom panel to bring up Thunderbird. Result: Thunderbird will jump to the left screen instead of showing up at the top of the right screen (where it should be). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): compiz-0.3.6-2.fc7 kernel-2.6.20-1.2922.fc7 kmod-nvidia-1.0.9746-1.2.6.20_1.2922.fc7 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1) How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Actual results: see above Expected results: see above Additional info:
With Desktop Effects on and TwinView: Maximize a gnome-terminal in the left screen. Maximize a gnome-terminal in the right screen. In the right screen, hit F11 so that gnome-terminal goes full-screen. Do some work. Now hit F11 again in the right screen. The terminal will jump to the left screen. NOTE: My desktop is configured with "select windows when the mouse moves over them" turned on. I do not know what happens if I turn that off, never tried it.
Maximize Firefox in the left screen. Maximize Thunderbird in the right screen. In Thunderbird, click on a URL. Firefox will open the URL in a new tab, but it will also jump off the left screen. I think it goes to the right screen, hidden underneath Thunderbird.
Can someone confirm this is not a Development problem, as this was pushed as a testing update I think it would be prudent to block on this if it is valid on FC6 as well. While I am on the QA team I simply don't have a Compiz capable system available to do testing on FC6 since I moved into F7 testing fulltime.
David: I'm getting this on my FC6 desktop; but I must admit that my Xorg/Mesa/DRI stack, kernel, and compiz/metacity (among others) are all pulled from Development...
I was having this problem also until I added the "place" plugin. I had some other problems and reset my plugin list but this was not one of the defaults.
Indeed that helps tremendously, why one wonders is this not on by default anymore? Also the very useful scale plugin doesn't seem enabled by default either, it seems to be warrenting at least a nice tick box in Desktop Effects as it's one of the plugins that really makes Compiz useful.
I was having the extreme-top-left corner problem too, I just upgraded to compiz 0.3.6-2 from the stable FC6 updates. I added the place plugin to the active plugins list and it's working perfectly now. This plugin should definitely be enabled by default, there will probably be a huge amount of people having this problem now that the update's been pushed.
Moving to 'devel' as discussed on https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-March/msg00095.html.
I can confirm the top-upper-corner windows with F7T2 Live CD (when Desktop Effects get turned on) and also with FC6, but only for users that haven't used compiz prior to 0.3.x (this is obviously for FC6 only). For people that had .gconf/apps/compiz before, it works fine (in fact, blowing away all that for new users and replacing with with contents from someone else's pre-0.3.x .gonf/apps/compiz fixes the problem).
Where top-upper-corner is defined as upper-left-corner, of course ;-)
So I guess the solution is to re-enable 'place' in the default plugin list? Kristian, is there a reason it's been removed from the list? Would it be OK to re-add it?
The plugin was never disabled, I think there's a bug in the desktop-effects dialog that drops it from the list when it reconfigures the plugin list. Re-adding the plugin manually is a quick workaround for this problem, but I'll see if I can come up with a real fix.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 230149 ***
It would be good to get this fixed sooner rather than later - it's already causing bad PR both for us and for Compiz. http://msevior.livejournal.com/15629.html