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uhcafigdc

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Registered: 2010-12-14

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[Solved] Maximized window does not cover all available screen space

Here is a screenshot of my "maximized" window: http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/6055/notmaximized.png

I can manually resize a normal window to fill the entire screen, but when I maximise a window, it fills this only area of the screen as shown here.

What is the deal here? Is it the window manager? How do I fix this?

chooback

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Re: [Solved] Maximized window does not cover all available screen space

Hey, are you doing it on an external monitor?

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Re: [Solved] Maximized window does not cover all available screen space

Maybe you've set workspace margins (settings->workspaces).

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uhcafigdc

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Registered: 2010-12-14

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Re: [Solved] Maximized window does not cover all available screen space

Hey, are you doing it on an external monitor?

Ah, yes. The primary monitor is not enabled, though.

Maybe you've set workspace margins (settings->workspaces).

I checked this and there are no workspace margins set.

Last edited by uhcafigdc (2010-12-15 18:58:53)

etnlWings

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Re: [Solved] Maximized window does not cover all available screen space

If it's not workspace margins, open up Settings>Panel and flick through the first combobox to make sure you don't have any fat extra panels set to 0/1% opacity. From the looks of it, you should have only one panel.

Also a possibility is if you've been playing with conky and you've got a conky config set to 'panel/dock' window type, in which case it's possible that you've got conky drawing an invisible rectangle and pushing your screen margin up.

uhcafigdc

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Re: [Solved] Maximized window does not cover all available screen space

Fixed it! Thanks, chooback.

I had the panel at the bottom of the screen set to "Span monitors" and the other monitor that was disabled is a different size.

M_Mynaardt

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Re: [Solved] Maximized window does not cover all available screen space

Hi!

I actually had a similar problem that uhcafigdc had.  I was trying to use Docky on my laptop (no external monitor) using ZevenOS.  It only seemed to work if I set Docky for autohide or intellihide and even then it only mostly worked.  Notably it didn't work with my favourite browser, Opera.  I had the same problem with the bottom of the Window not going down to the bottom of the screen.  I didn't try every app, of course.  But the windows maximized nicely for Open Office, KMyMoney, and Firefox, but for Opera, I just couldn't get a nicely maximized window while Docky was running; even if it was set to autohide or intellihide.

Where might the problems or settings be there?

I'm not too worried if Docky won't work.  I'm doing quite well with an extra panel at the top of the screen on autohide with launchers.  But having Docky work properly would be in the "nice to have" category...

Thanks...

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