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ghorvath

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Registered: 2015-10-01

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How to resize xfce4 to original size after maximized?

Hi Team!

I love Bunsenlabs Carbon on my shiny new Framework laptop 13. On my previous laptop, I used urxvt to save on resources, but on this new laptop I thought I will live a little, and gave the default Bunsen terminal a go! :-D

However, I experience a weird behaviour, and I am not sure if this is only me, or this is expected. When I maximize the xfce4-terminal (let it be with the icon, or with ALT+F6), afterwards I can not find a way to resize the terminal to its original size. If I hit the maximize button again on the upper-right corner, the button loses the highlighting, but the terminal does not go back to its pre-maximized size, nor to its original place on the desktop. It stays where it is, essentially filling up the screen, maybe moves a few pixels to some direction.

This seems to be an issue with xfce4-terminal specifically, because for example firefox behaves as expected: after maximized, when I hit the maximize button again, it moves the firefox window back to its original size and place on the desktop.

Anyone experienced this before? Is this a known limitation, or is my system screwed up in some way?
Not sure what are the relevant information here, but happy to provide details. I'm using the kernel and firmware from backports, but otherwise using the stable debian and bunsen repos.

johnraff

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Re: How to resize xfce4 to original size after maximized?

Hi ghorvath - this seems to be something with your system.
On my recently upgraded Carbon system I can toggle xfce4-terminal's maximization OK, either with the icon or with Alt+F6.

Have you found any other apps with the same problem?
Are you using a backported xfce4-terminal or the standard 1.1.4-1 from the Trixie repository?

EDIT I do now remember getting some similar maximize behaviour when using lxde-terminal on a qemu Trixie VM. Sometimes after maximizing if you try to return to normal size, the terminal window looks the same, but it's not maximized, it's a very big normal window. In that state you can resize it by grabbing a window edge. Does that sound familiar? I've no idea what's behind it though (and it's not xfce4-terminal).

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Re: How to resize xfce4 to original size after maximized?

In BL, F11 to maximize and minimize has always worked for me (xfce4; lxterminal; terminator).
However, the window must NOT have any Frame at this point!