yesterday I realized that I could no longer drag and drop windows from one monitor to the next while maximizing the window by pulling in to the top of the monitor. The dragging still works, but pulling a window to the top does not maximize it anymore. I have looked if maybe some settings got changed, but I do not find a configuration for that behaviour.
From this timeline, I guess the budgie-extras change on 9.8. should be the culprit, but maybe I didn’t realize the change as soon as it occured (I couldn’t swear on it), so I included all changes to budgie things from this month.
The funny thing is that I read the thread before, but as I was already done with the upgrade and the instructions are only useful if you do it before or during the upgrade, and I saw no immediate problems arising I put it out of my head.
Thanks for the link though. Sadly, it is really really light on information what the symptoms would be.
Okay, the kicker is: Both packages are already installed:
extra/magpie-wm 0.9.2-1 (2.4 MiB 13.4 MiB) (Installiert)
Budgie's X11 window manager and compositor library forked from Mutter
[...]
extra/mutter 44.3-1 (2.6 MiB 14.1 MiB) (Installiert)
Window manager and compositor for GNOME
If those two packages are conflicting, it shouldn’t be possible to have both installed, no? Strange in any case.
Magpie allows mutter based desktops such as GNOME Shell to co-exist since the key-components such as libmagpie are separated by both name and file-system install location. Magpie shares some Mutter shared files; therefore these need to be delivered/installed as part of the distribution from its mutter package.
thats the new Budgie WM before it was using only Mutter as far as i remember… and with GNOME updates to Mutter44 Budgie was no longer compatible with GNOMES latest Mutter what causes it needed Mutter43 to be installed. And now there is magpie-wm what needs latest Mutter again (44) …
I do not dare to mention the importance of backups. Even the underrated timeshift could have helped in this case.
Alt+F10 maximizes the window
but with a shovelful down I made a comparison with an arch based Budgie system
Edit: It turned out that dconf configs were different.
where a window is maximized by hitting the top edge
I actually have backups, and even the snapshots you mentioned. But realizing there is a problem a few days after the upgrade happened, I would have to commit to go back on anything that my system went through since then. And as I can work around the problem, and I would assume that this problem is not unique to my system alone, and that there’s a solution out there, going back to a snapshot without having the option to upgrade from then on doesn’t sound like a good option.
I have somehow fixed the issue. In the multitasking configuration there was a new second option for how the corners should work. The new configuration option dialog popped up when I went to the multitasking configuration, and after selecting the new version I saw that the active corners toggle was off. Maybe by introducing a new option active corners was toggled off automatically?
I do not find the dialog again that popped up, so I cannot even show what I saw, but there were two options of how the corners should work. The left option showed a monitor with all edges (left, right, top and the 4 corners) circled, the right option only had top, left and right circled.
Sorry for my misleading interpretation of the ‘issue’. Meanwhile I recognized that
~/.config/dconf/user
contains most of the configuration and although it is dangerous it can be copied between
similar systems and so it transfers the setup.
System Settings /Multitasking / General / Active Screen Edges ON and for the first time you can select Built-in (3 Left, Top, Right) – just to summarize for me. BTW double click on the window title bar also maximizes the window.
