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MichaelW
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inflating of windows by freecad

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Hello,
I wanted to rearrange the windows of Freecad
When I'm moving for instance my Tree window to the top of my screen, Freecad (it self) enlarges it to a the whole width of the screen which I do not want. Does any body know how to stop this self inflating of windows by freecad ?
I think this started after I clicked the Tile windows or Cascade Windows option of the Windows option at the top.

Thank in advance,
Michael.

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I guess that this isn't doen by FreeCAD, but rather by Windows itself. I know such behaviour from other windows too. The trick is to stay with the mouse away from the top border.
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In Windows there is a Settings entry for "Snap windows to automatically resize". It is on by default.

Uncheck that option.

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GeneFC wrote: Wed Mar 29, 2023 12:55 pm In Windows there is a Settings entry for "Snap windows to automatically resize".
Is there Linux equivalent setting as well, please?
or is it different depending on which distro/desktop one is using?
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bambuko wrote: Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:28 pm ...
Is there Linux equivalent setting as well, please?
or is it different depending on which distro/desktop one is using?
...
It heavily depends on what DE or WM you are using.

Usually WM are more configurable, DE tend to follow the Windows philosophy of using "common settings".

If you search for your DE version, sadly I don't know too much as I use OpenBox WM with a stripped down config file regarding keyboard shortcuts, trying to avoid conflicts with Emacs shortcuts and other software I use, I have modified most of them to use Win keys as CTRL and ALT are heavily used by Emacs.

But it is an old habit of an old computer hobbyst.

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thanks @onekk
I was guessing this was the case - I use WIN+RM (or LMB) for the handling of all the panes etc
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In Windows, I turned this snap option under multitasking off , stopped and started windows but this didn't work.
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MichaelW wrote: Wed Mar 29, 2023 10:51 pm In Windows, I turned this snap option under multitasking off , stopped and started windows but this didn't work.
OK, this is probably caused by the Qt library used by FreeCAD. I find it overly aggressive about snapping windows.

All I can recommend is to work very slowly and carefully. I try to avoid gratuitous resizing, since the overly-active Qt behavior is always lurking in the background. :o

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it's not clear to me if you have the panel as a floating window and snapping it to the top of the screen or if you are docking it to the upper side of the application, it could be easier to help if you show what you have now and what you desire.
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