Running compiz-fusion for some time, one thing started to annoy me. Snapping windows. The first thing I obviously looked for was the Snapping Windows Plugin. But that was already disabled.
I’m blogging the setting that controls this behavior because it took me some time to find it, I think other people may find it contra productive as well.
No need for a long article this time.
It’s a subsetting of the Wobbly Windows plugin called: Snap Inverted. Turn it off and the snapping stops.
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Sebastian
on 2012-07-13 00:58:33
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I’ve been fiddling with Compiz for a while now, and this saved my life. :D
I hate the friggin’ snapping windows. :P
Tony
on 2012-06-18 15:40:45
Thanks, solved in seconds after seeing your site.
Kyle Huff
on 2009-07-02 03:56:33
With a fresh install of Jaunty - I had to uncheck \&
quot;Snap Inverted\&
quot; then also disable the wobbly windows plugin, and re-enabled it for this to take affect.. Thanks for the tip!
Troy
on 2008-12-15 18:09:30
Ahh, Thanks a lot! I've been trying to turn that stupid setting off for a while now! Big help.
Jake
on 2008-12-09 06:36:47
Thank you so much! this was driving me crazy!
Craig
on 2008-10-29 14:09:06
Thanks for the tip, I've been trying to turn this off for days!
BunkleBus
on 2008-04-15 08:15:13
Thank you!!!!!!
Ted
on 2008-04-05 05:48:57
Thanks for showung this :) I turned off snapping windows and still does this… It should be turned off by default:) Thanks again
cggaret
on 2008-03-28 02:11:20
Thank you. I wish I would have googled this before the hours that I spent trying to find this setting. Thank you, thank you thank you.
Matt Lacey
on 2008-03-13 04:05:42
Thank you!!! Some how it 'magically' turned on and it's been doing my nut for weeks!
gotjukies
on 2008-03-04 01:34:15
Thanks. That was driving me nuts!
Florian
on 2008-01-20 14:05:38
Thanks! that was annoying.
neo214
on 2008-01-12 03:04:05
AWESOME YOU ROCK!
Anonymous
on 2008-01-11 22:54:23
I actually like the snapping windows. However, not so much wobbly. I'd disable wobbly completely and enable the snapping plugin, personally.
but if you use wobbly anyways, if you enable or disable the snap-inverted, you can also hold shift to temporarily force the opposite, if, say, you want only this window to snap (or if it is snapping and you don't want that window to)
piltdown
on 2008-01-10 14:49:33
This was bugging me for so long. Thanks!!
Gandalfos
on 2007-12-16 18:47:27
Thank you so much !! I search for a long time to disable this.
Jesse Wright
on 2007-11-14 10:53:31
Thank you!
dustingram
on 2007-11-14 01:49:46
Perfect! Thanks!
Kevin
on 2007-11-05 23:52:11
@ Hoek: ffmpeg allows you to control compression levels. This can really help to keep your vids readable. One thing though, please keep comments on topic by posting in the right article. Thanks!
Hoek
on 2007-11-05 22:24:16
Indeed a good solution, though the snappiness is controlable. I also like your article on gtkrecordMydesktop. The only problem with desktopvids is once converted to flash (which is what most imagehosters do) the text gets fuzzy and so useless. I use SnagIt on my winbox, great easy to use tool, same problem. Creates crystalclear desktops vids in AVI, but once converted it's useless as a demo. Any thoughts?
And yes Gutsy&
amp;Compiz, i just love it!
Leszek
on 2007-11-05 21:16:50
I find it annoying to.
On a big monitor it could be usefull.
Gaspard
on 2007-11-03 05:11:27
I reckon this should be turned off by default.. I wouldn't mind it too much if it was adjustable (the snappiness) etc…
timothy
on 2007-11-01 22:42:23
yeah it took me a little while to find that too, so annoying
John
on 2007-10-30 20:30:51
Exactly what I needed to disable the only thing I didn't like about compiz. Had same trouble finding as well. Thanks much!
Derek
on 2007-10-26 05:15:22
Thanks so much for the tip!
Anson
on 2007-10-22 01:44:37
Thanks! This has been bugging me.
Kevin
on 2007-10-21 09:30:24
@ Jason: Thank you. I have an article on that as well:
http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/create_your_own_screencast/
Jason
on 2007-10-21 05:20:55
Hi, I've been reading your blog for a few weeks- good stuff! I was wondering what you use for screencasting in ubuntu.
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Thanks!
Kevin
on 2007-10-19 08:17:42
@ Jim March: You are missing a couple of packages. Take a look at my other article:
http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/upgrade_to_ubuntu_gutsy_with_compizfusion/
And (re)install the packages listed in Step 3.
Jim March
on 2007-10-19 04:56:15
(Cross-posted from Ubuntuforms…)
I appear to be punished for using Gutsy in Beta. Now that it's fully released, I can't get one key window.
I'm running a single-core Celeron 1.6 laptop of recent make (Acer 3680) with 1.5gig RAM and the Intel 945 graphics chip. I'm getting the same issue running the \&
quot;intel\&
quot; and \&
quot;i810\&
quot; drivers.
Background: I was trying to follow the directions for getting rid of the brain-dead \&
quot;snap to grid\&
quot; effect in Compiz found here:
(this page and video above)
At 52 seconds in, you can see he goes to \&
quot;appearance\&
quot; and then the \&
quot;visual effects\&
quot; tab. So far so good, I can get there.
But I only have THREE radio buttons: \&
quot;None\&
quot;, \&
quot;Normal\&
quot; and \&
quot;Extra\&
quot;.
In Kevin's video, he has a fourth button - I can't catch the name but it leads to a whole universe of settings and fine-tuning I don't have.
Now, I could add “gnome-compiz-manager” in Synaptic and get some controls. But I can't turn off snap-to-grid with that thing and it's otherwise a buggy kluge. For starters, all settings done there are re-set to default the moment I reboot.
I want the full settings normal to Compiz. I don't think I should be punished for being a beta user - that's insane.
I've tried fully removing everything Compiz-related in Synaptic and starting over. Didn't help.
Anybody have a clue what's going on here?