in unity, how do I disable the window auto resize?

**ant2ne** · August 12th, 2011

Like, if I drag a window to the top of the screen, somehow this is supposed to mean I want the window full screen. Screw that if I wanted it full screen I'd have clicked the button on the top of the menu. Windows 7 does this too and it just as annoying.

**JRV** · August 12th, 2011

Code:

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

Code:

ccsm

Uncheck the "Grid" in the "Window Management" category.

This will stop the window from maximizing when dragged to the top.

The window will still maximize if it fills more than 3/4 of the screen. The fix for this will be in Oneiric.

**ant2ne** · August 13th, 2011

Thanks!!

**bo.vestergaard** · August 13th, 2011

Thanks a lot. That was annoying but now it works

**adasilva** · August 24th, 2011

Thanks JRV! This is so much better.

**abetterlie** · August 25th, 2011

Lifesaver! Cheers.
Now I don't have to be afraid of my windows touching the edge of my screen.

**johnsquibb** · August 30th, 2011

Thanks for this fix. This issue was seriously starting to get on my nerves.

**thomas87** · April 4th, 2012

For the sake of completeness, in case you don't have root access to your box, you can stil go to

System Settings->Desktop->Screen Edges

and uncheck the option

"Maximize windows by dragging them to the top of the screen"

That did it for me (KDE 4.4.5, Ubuntu squeeze)

**Lahmacun** · February 25th, 2013

Unity still does auto-site windows on my desktop even when disabling "grid".
you have to uncheck "scale windows", too (in deutsch: "Fenster skalieren")
otherwise it will still maximize the y-axis of the window when it touched the borders of the screen.

who did make such things a default option in the first way?
what a ridiculous fail.

[edit] ok, i described it wrong, i guess.
even after i unchecked "grid" some weeks before, ubuntu had a weird auto-resize activated on my desktop. this was just a "vertical" auto-resize. i just now got rid of it by checking some options in the window manager options screen in ccsm and then unchecking them again.
what a pain.

[edit2]
no, didn't fix it at all.
seems to be a bug still present in 12.10
happens from time to time but i havent been able to reproduce it, i will try and fill in a bug report.