Bizarre window snap at screen borders

[Frank Steinmetzger]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 05:37:41PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Frank Steinmetzger posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2013 13:34:58 +0200 as excerpted:
> 
> > See how tastes differ. *I* found this a bad idea and it was among the
> > things I always disable right after installation, because I wanted the
> > window's [X] to be in the corner where it belongs so I can quickly reach
> > it by mouse. It's the same reason for which I can't understand why
> > people use top panels. But that's the user world -- to each his own, and
> > the dev's can't accommodate everyone. The fact that they don't include
> > (or, as you say, even remove) the option is sadly another story.
> 
> Just noting the multi-monitor case, with monitors logically stacked and 
> kwin set to maximize to a single monitor.  That's actually the case here, 
> with the further condition that altho three monitors are logically 
> stacked, only the bottom two are actually physically stacked due to space 
> constraints (they're actually 42-inch TVs that stack to cover an entire 
> wall, with the third logically stacked on top to preserve the logical 
> rectangular desktop, but physically off to the side where I have room for 
> it).
> 
> In that case, a top panel covering essentially all of the top monitor,  
> my "system status dashboard", graphing user/system/nice/wait CPU usage 
> separately for six cores, app/buffer/cache memory, various system temps, 
> voltage and power usage, and fan speeds, network usage, and listing top 
> applications by memory and cpu usage, etc, along with last 20 or so syslog 
> entries, all in a custom superkaramba theme, makes sense, particularly 
> since that monitor is physically separated from the others even if it's 
> logically stacked on top of them.

you godda admit, that’s an “exotic” setup. Anyways, I was more referring
to the “typical“ single-monitor, single-desktop use case. Not having
seriously worked with a multimonitor setup yet, I excluded that from my
thought process. :o) Think for example *cough* Apple laptops or, heck,
Gnome (not just 3 but also the default config in 2 and also in xfce4).

> ... [...] Instead, I don't care much about the defaults; I just want
> to have the configurability to sanely setup a configuration I'm
> comfortable with.
> 
> And kde is renowned for that sort of flexible configurability, a big part 
> of why I use it, for much the same "big part of" reason that I use both 
> Gentoo and Linux in general -- the configurability.  Too bad in this case 
> kde had it, but removed it! =:^(

Indeed.


PS.: If you use KWin's align window function (which I set to Meta +
left/right, inspired by Windows) to put a window either on one half or
quarter of a screen, then the borders are not chopped.
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