Transparent windows: how to get rid of it?

[freddyEK at gmail.com]

Thanks to Liam, Colin and Ioannis for the help. Liam: this is indeed the  
problem! Now that I know what happens, I think I can live with it (for the  
time being). I hope that this behaviour will be corrected in a next version  
or something!
Thanks again!

Freddy

Le , Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> a écrit :
> On 3 December 2011 13:40, Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> > On 3 December 2011 09:59, Freddy Van Ingelgom freddyek at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> I think that my question is confusing the way I posed here. In fact I  
> should

> >> not speak about a window, but I do not know how to name it: sometimes  
> it

> >> appears on the screen as a sort of indication were to put a existing  
> window,

> >> a sort of placeholder or how should I name it? It is a sort of  
> transparent

> >> rectangular that appears on top of my desktop and it does not affect  
> the way

> >> I worked, it is there, I can see and continue my current work, and the  
> only

> >> way to get rid of it is to resize a window, place it on this  
> transparent and

> >> then the window takes the size of that transparent which disappear and  
> after

> >> that I can return to the size that i like for my current work (Firefox  
> for

> >> example, or whatever).

> >> I know that my question is not very clear, but the problem is that I  
> dont

> >> know the name or the meaning, or even the purpose of that transparent

> >> rectangular.

> >> Any help is very appreciated.

> >

> > Ahh, right. I think I have seen this and know what you are talking  
> about.

> >

> > Windows 7 introduced a new feature of edge-snap window tiling. If you

> > drag a window to the right or left edge of the monitor, it will resize

> > that window so that it takes either the left or the right half of the

> > screen. This means that by dragging one window to the left and one to

> > the right, you end up with 2 vertically-tiled windows, side-by-side.

> > It is very handy.

> >

> > Similarly, dragging a window to the top of the screen maximises it.

> >

> > Also on Windows, resizing the top of a window right to the top of the

> > screen will snap-resize the window to the full height of the screen

> > but not change the width.

> >

> > The window manager in the Unity desktop tries to do the same, but it

> > implements it badly. Rather than the *mouse pointer* touching the side

> > of the screen, if the *edge of the window* touches the side of the

> > screen, it attempts to snap-resize it to half the screen size, and if

> > the window-edge touches the top, it tries to maximise it. It shows

> > what it is going to do by drawing a translucent brown rectangle with

> > an orange border over where the window is going to go.

> >

> > If you don't want this to happen and you therefore move the window

> > back away from the screen-edge a little bit, the overlay box

> > disappears and the window is not resized.

> >

> > I find it very irritating, to be honest, but I just live with it.

> >

> > The snag is that sometimes, if you move the window, the overlay box

> > does not disappear, but remains visible. You can see the window

> > contents through it, so it's not fatal, but it's irritating.

> >

> > I have not been able to isolate a cause of the persistent overlay box.

> >

> > What I have found is how to get rid of it. It is not always easy. What

> > you must do is this:

> > * identify /which/ window you were moving to get the overlay box. It

> > may not be the last one you were using.

> > * grab its title bar and move it slightly.

> > * if this does not cause the box to disappear, then:

> > * move the target window to one edge of the screen, left, right or

> > top, so that the window-manager offers to snap-resize it again. At

> > this point, it will draw a /new/ overlay box to show where it's going

> > to go - and then it will "remember" the old leftover one and remove

> > it.

> > * move the window back where it was, so that the new overlay box  
> disappears.

> >

> > Now the screen should be clear and unobstructed.



> This might be the bug:

> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-distro-priority/+bug/875557



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