Compiz maximizing unreliable

I click the mouse the first time, then the window jumps to this position.

I click the mouse the second time, the FreeCiv window jumps to this position.

From then on, a mouse click makes the window jump between the second and third screenshot.

I've had this too - at least with the GNOME terminal. With the "extra" desktop effects enabled, the "maximised" GNOME terminal will continually wobble as if it has just been maximised.

This video demonstrates the maximizing of the calculator compared to Mahjongg.

xserver-xorg-video-i810 version 2:1.7.4-0ubuntu5

1) Do you have the place plugin enabled?
2) gnome-terminal is asking compiz to do this.
3) This looks fine, it's just because the calculator window is smaller so the effect is more dramatic.

Oops, didn't mean to do that.

I have this problem too, with gnome-terminal. But it only happens with the visual effects enabled, If I disable them, the window maximizes just fine.

I'm running Gutsy Beta from a clean install, with a GeForce 6600 with the drivers provided by restricted-manager

The gnome-terminal issue is really annoying, happens here with both my Nvidia FX5200 (nvidia driver) and my Intel 945GM/GMS (intel driver)

The gnome-terminal one is not a bug. That is how it is supposed to work.

Travis, why do you say that it's not a bug? it isn't supposed to work that way, because it clearly behaves differently when effects are turned on.

Travis:
1) I don't know. I'm using default setup, with "extra effects" enabled.
2) Why do you think gnome-terminal wants NOT to fill the screen, like under Metacity?
3) If it looks fine, then the screen cast doesn't look right. The mahjongg window doesn't behave like an Epiphany window either. It has nothing to do with the calculator window being smaller. The mahjongg maximizing does not behave properly.

Travis: I guess gnome-terminal asks a specific size, right. However the user asks it to be maximized. And the user is the one who chooses, so he's right and gnome-terminal has to adapt to this (and it does with metacity).

17:53 < mvo> pochu: thanks :) bug #145843 should be done too
17:53 < mvo> fixed in bzr that is

Thanks Michael!

Updated my 7.10 system with all updates as of 8:30 CST 10/8. My system also uses the xorg intel driver and is experiencing a similar issue with maximizing windows. Starting an application that normally runs full screen results in the app appearing to be opened "non-full screen", although the top-right window buttons indicate it should be full screen. Clicking the "restore window" middle-button will cause the window to change position on the screen. At this point the middle button is a "maximize window" button. Pressing it will make the window appear full screen for real. It appears that when initially started, the window is not full-screen but the system thinks it is. Telling the system to un-maximize the window and then maximizing it again fixes the issue. Alternatively, if the full screen app is opened, taking up only some of the screen and centered in the top-left corner, if it is dragged to the middle of the screen, it appears to be come unmaximzed and the middle button changes to "maximize window". Pushing that button at this point will cause the app to fully maximize.
My system has this issue with Firefox and gnome-terminal. For OpenOffice 2.3, the window stays un-maximized no matter how many times the maximize button is pressed.
This behavior does not occur with Metacity - only Compiz.

compiz (1:0.6.0+git20071006-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * new 0.6 git snapshot:
    - fix initial stacking (LP: #147943)
    - fix crash in grab hanlding in wobbly (LP: #125981)
  * debian/patches/028_compiz_manager_blacklist:
    - add a missing i965 pci id (LP: #149751)
  * debian/patches/029_default_options:
    - disable vsync by default here so that the compiz and
      libcompizconfig do not fight over the default
  * debian/patches/024_add_config_notify.patch:
    - updated so that a extra configure notify is send in resizeWindow
      (LP: #140773)
  * debian/patches/023_ignore_hints_when_maximized.patch:
    - removed, no longer needed with latest git (LP: #145843)
  * debian/patches/030_fix_screensaver:
    - return InputOutput override_redirct windows in
      findTopLevelWindowAtScreen(), this fixes the focus problem
      in gnome-screensaver (LP: #122549)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:00:15 +0200