Bug 433737 - XFCE fails to maximize windows on a dual-screen desktop
Summary: XFCE fails to maximize windows on a dual-screen desktop
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xfce4-panel
Version: 8
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kevin Fenzi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-02-21 03:24 UTC by David Winslow
Modified: 2009-01-09 07:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 07:40:17 UTC
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Description David Winslow 2008-02-21 03:24:27 UTC
Description of problem:
When you have a dual-screen system and an XFCE panel on the border between the
displays, maximizing windows on the opposite screen results in a window that has
the maximize button depressed, but does not take up the entire screen.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xfwm4 4.4.2-1.fc8
xfce4-panel 4.4.2-1.fc8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get two displays working with a large desktop (as opposed to clone) setup.
2. Start up XFCE and put a panel on the border between the displays on display A.
3. Move a window to display B and maximize it.
  
Actual results:
Window has maximize property set, but does not take up the full area of the screen.

Expected results:
Window should actually fill the screen.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2008-02-21 03:40:48 UTC
I can see about duplicating this here, but a few questions: 

- How are you seeing up the 2 displays? xrandr? Or via xorg.conf changes? 
Can you attach the xrandr command and/or a copy of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf? 

- When you say "full area of the screen" do you mean the full area of display B
? Or displayA + displayB ? 

Thanks for the bug report. 

Comment 2 David Winslow 2008-02-21 04:39:08 UTC
I use xrandr; the command is: "xrandr --output VGA --left-of LVDS --auto" (or
right-of, depending on how my desk is laid out).

I'm expecting the maximized window to fill display B, not both displays.

Thanks for the prompt response.

Comment 3 Kevin Fenzi 2008-10-10 01:12:54 UTC
Of course the prompt response was useless without more prompt followup. ;) 
Sorry about the delay here. 

So, do you get a window the size of displayA on displayB? ie, does it look like it's calculating max via the size of displayA instead of displayB?

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