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Can't move window to screen above taskbar in multiple monitor setup
I noticed that windows can't be moved from the primary screen to a secondary screen if it's positioned above the primary.
The gnome display setup tool doesn't work to rearrange the positioning of my displays under Arch budgie git. arandr, however, does.
Unfortunately it is also not possible to move the window across monitors using super + shift + left/right.
This issue doesn't seem limited to a particular direction. I was able to recreate this issue by putting my panel on right side of my left monitor. I was able to drag windows partway onto my right monitor, but the window hits an "invisible wall" a few inches in and cannot be dragged any further.
I have found the way to reproduce this: in taskbar Preferences/Behaviour deselect "Hide Dock". After doing so, I cannot put any windows beyond the taskbar, wherever it would be.
As @zevdg mentioned, I hit an invisible wall. It is always the same amount of window left on the host (where taskbar is) monitor and the rest of the window can go outside. If you have a wide enough window, even over multiple monitors.
This appears to be a Mutter limitation, and I've reproduced this with basically every panel going that reserves screen edges
On ubuntubudgie 18.04 I can now move a window to the top monitor, but the bar is now reserved on the monitor above the primary display. This results in the menu bar of a window disappearing behind the top bar if I maximize them. And on the top screen the transparent bar is always reserved. Quite annoying this way... only workaround is to set the top monitor as primary display...
Still an issue as of now, Budgie v10.5.1 on Manjaro. Panel on the left, window hits the invisible wall.
On Ubuntu Budgie 20.04.2.
I had the same issue. I could not move windows past the top bar to a monitor placed above my main monitor.
I made my top display my primary display. So now the top bar appeared on top of the second display so the top bar was not "on the way". I was then able to move windows freely.
On ubuntubudgie 18.04 I can now move a window to the top monitor, but the bar is now reserved on the monitor above the primary display. This results in the menu bar of a window disappearing behind the top bar if I maximize them. And on the top screen the transparent bar is always reserved. Quite annoying this way... only workaround is to set the top monitor as primary display...
There is a workaround to the problem of your workaround.
I solved the hiding of maximized windows by going to Budgie Desktop Settings -> Top Panel -> Setting And increasing the size there.
Maybe this should be a new issue
On ubuntubudgie 18.04 I can now move a window to the top monitor, but the bar is now reserved on the monitor above the primary display. This results in the menu bar of a window disappearing behind the top bar if I maximize them. And on the top screen the transparent bar is always reserved. Quite annoying this way... only workaround is to set the top monitor as primary display...
There is a workaround to the problem of your workaround.
I solved the hiding of maximized windows by going to Budgie Desktop Settings -> Top Panel -> Setting And increasing the size there.
Maybe this should be a new issue
I wish this solved the issue in 21.10. This is almost a showstopper for me for budgie.
I can't believe people don't stack monitors enough to have this fixed.
Work around: Turn on Automatically Hide
I can move a window completely pass a panel after switching {Automatically Hide} from {Never} to {Automatic} or {Intelligent.}
{Automatically Hide} doesn't seem to affect much else anyways except the overlapping of perpendicular panels (I've never seen these panels actually hide.)
I have top and bottom panels and another panel on the right, all on the left monitor. budgie-desktop 10.5.3-2
BTW: {Super-Shift-Right}, etc. also works too, with auto hide turned on.
Does moving away from budgie to ubuntu fix this?
Auto hide in my mind isn't a workaround. Because I want it to stay there and windows to snap to the edge of the bar.
Work around: Setting Top display as primary makes the panel move to the top as well, so no panel is in the middle, this way it is possible to move the windows between displays (super+shift+down/up) and maximize (super+up/down) using keyword shortcuts. Tested in Solus
The workaround is to configure budgie desktop to use intellihide / autohide on the top or bottome panel.
When you move the windows, the panel auto-hide, and let the window move to the next screen.
Source: https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-drag-windows-to-my-second-screen-when-i-locate-it-over-main-screen/6172/5
