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Description of problem: Metacity does not unmaximize windows reliably. What I mean is that occasionally when a window is maximized metacity seems to forget what the original size was. When that happens, when metacity forgets, either pressing <alt><f5> or clicking the unmaximize button in the upper right hand corner does cause the window to change to the unmaximized state, but it retains its large maximized size. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I've reproduced this problem on both Fedora 8 and Fodora 9 preview (Fedora release 8.93 (Rawhide)), so it's probably in the latest metacity code. But I have not actually built from latest source code. The metacity versions are: metacity-2.20.0-3.fc8 metacity-2.22.0-2.fc9.i386 How reproducible: This problem is intermittently reproducible during normal use. I think I experienced it once every five minutes or so which was enough to annoy me into moving to IceWM. However, I can recreate this problem in a matter of seconds using the artificial recreate steps mentioned below. So in that sense it's very reproducible. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open some application that normally does not startup maximized. gnome-terminal works well. 2. Use the keyboard shortcuts to quickly alternate between the maximized and initial unmaximized sizes. With the default bindings just hold down the <alt> key and alternately press <alt><f10> and <alt><f5> quickly. 3. After a while although <alt><f5> causes the application to enter the unmaximized state it's now roughly the maximized size. In other words, the size of the application no longer varies significantly as <alt><f5> and <alt><f10> are pressed. Actual results: Either pressing <alt><f5> or clicking the unmaximize button in the upper right hand corner fails to cause the window to return to the size it was when the application was first displayed. Instead, it ends up being pretty much the maximized size. Expected results: Either pressing <alt><f5> or clicking the unmaximize button in the upper right hand corner should cause the application to return to the size it was when the application was first displayed. Additional info: It surprises me that I can't find any other complaints about this. Maybe it only happens on older machines, but my "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz" isn't that old. It also happens on my much older "Pentium III (Katmai)". Maybe many people experience this, but only I was annoyed enough to open a defect as a result of the way I work with windows. I like to have multiple gnome-terminals that are precisely 80x24 tiled across my desktop (four, one in each corner). I'll maximize whichever one I'm using. And I like it to go back to exactly 80x24 when I'm done. If you don't care what it gets unmaximized to then dragging it back manually isn't so bad.
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