Bug 691165 - Snapping windows do not work with dual screen setup
Summary: Snapping windows do not work with dual screen setup
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 699751
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-03-27 10:25 UTC by Christoph Wickert
Modified: 2012-08-07 17:36 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
: 699751 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-07 17:36:52 UTC
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Description Christoph Wickert 2011-03-27 10:25:34 UTC
Description of problem:
Snapping windows are a nice feature. Simply drag a window to the left or right border to automatically have it resized to fill half of the secreen and tile two windows vertically. Unfortunately this does not work in dual screen setups.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-2.91.91-2.fc15.i686

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attach a second display to your computer. By default it will be attached right of the first one.
2. Drag a window to the right border of the first display.
  
Actual results:
Window will be moved to the second screen.

Expected results:
As soon as the right border of the window hits the border of the display, snapping should be offered, this means the transparent blue area should indicate where the window would be if you stop dragging now and it was snapped to the right display border.

The window should only be moved to the second display if you drag it a little further so that it's right border *passes* the display's right border. Having one window snapped to the left side of the first display and the other window to either the left or right side of the second display doesn't make sense because it leaves you with two desktops that are both covered half. Two windows tiled vertically on one display and having another desktop available for other stuff makes much more sense, therefor snapping should be preferred over moving. Adding a little resistence while moving something over the display border might makes sense here.

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