Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Disabling edge-tiling in gnome-shell

After upgrading from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16, I had to spent a bit of my setting up time battling with gnome-shell. One of the more annoying features is the "snap" maximizing or "border" maximizing or (as gnome calls it) "edge-tiling". Default state of this feature is "true" as seen from the output of this command:
gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/shell/windows/edge_tiling
To change it simply type:
gconftool-2 --type=boolean --set /desktop/gnome/shell/windows/edge_tiling false
Then press, Alt-F2 and type "r" to restart gnome-shell.

Unfortunately, the battle with gnome-shell isn't over.

UPDATE: ...And so the struggle continues. More stupid default behaviour in gnome-shell -- dialog boxes are locked to the titlebar. This is especially annoying when you have a large dialog box and need to enter data that is shown under it and can't move the damn dialog box. Luckily it can be changed by this command:
gconftool-2 --type=boolean --set /desktop/gnome/shell/windows/attach_modal_dialogs false

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