Force disable snapping windows

Question

How can I reliably disable snapping windows? When I drag a window around by its titlebar and near the upper edge, it tints and wants to maximize if I let go of the mouse then (trying to park my app there, not cover the whole workspace!)

Until Unity becomes more productive for my work style I switched to cairo-dock with effects for now (which also is not without issues).

As the logged in user I have run ccsm the Compiz manager and disabled Snapping Windows altogether, and verified many times. Doesn't seem to care. Haven't filed a bug rep yet as maybe there's some other setting I don't know about. Nothing else results in the CompizConfig search when I try snap or snapping. Any other ideas?

Ubuntu Desktop 11.10 32bit, hwinfo:

 28: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_7145
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "ATI Radeon Mobility X1400"
  Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc"
  Device: pci 0x7145 "Radeon Mobility X1400"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1025 "Acer Incorporated [ALI]"
  SubDevice: pci 0x0094 
  Driver: "radeon"
  Driver Modules: "drm"
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd7ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0x2000-0x2fff (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xc8100000-0xc810ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xc8120000-0xc813ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 46 (306 events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d00007145sv00001025sd00000094bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: radeon is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe radeon"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #13 (PCI bridge)

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 04 '12 at 21:17

Disabled "Scale" under ccsm's "Window Management" .... and snapping to maximize suddenly stopped, finally! A lot of other things changed too, namely many updates since last month.

It would go such a long way if this plugin like so much else had a nearby description of what it actually does and when...not just "Scale Windows" on ccsm's left column and nothing else mentioned.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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My previous answer turned out to be wrong (not always off).

Finally found the answer! https://askubuntu.com/a/72480/38636

Seems it's also know as “drag to maximize” behaviour in Compiz and disabled in CCSM Grid plugin, Edges tab, Top Edge :: set to None.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

Community

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answered Apr 19 '12 at 20:58

Marcos

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 17 '12 at 16:58

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Try enabling wobbly windows in ccsm. I know that you cannot have snapping windows working when wobbly is activated. This may work, for it is what i have selected in my own compiz

answered Feb 17 '12 at 16:58

Scott Stookey

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 30 '16 at 04:00

This will work if you havve ccsm and you have the Grid feature enabled.

Go to CompizConfig Settings Manager.
Click Window Management.
Go to Resize Actions tab.
Set all values in Grid Snapback Thresholds to 0.

This will disable your windows from snapping. If you want the feature back, just reset all the values to their defaults. :-)

Here's a screenshot of the Grid settings menu.

Force disable snapping windows

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