Two motives of annoyance

[omui]

Hi,

Yes, the 1st behaviour can be changed:

Settings -> Windows Manager Tweaks -> Accessibility, 
uncheck "Automatically tile windows when moving toward the screen edge".

Not sure about the 2nd issue.

Best,

another xfce user


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On Thursday, December 18th, 2025 at 10:15 AM, renaud at olgiati.fr <renaud at olgiati.fr> wrote:

> 
> 
> I am installing pclinuxos-xfce on a new laptop, which will in the
> future replace my desktop box.
> 
> There are two things I find very annoying in the new set-up, and while
> I remember solving those problems many years ago on the desk box I
> cannot remember how I did it :
> 
> When I move a window to the top of the screen it automatically expands
> to occupy the full screen. Can this behaviour be killed ?
> 
> Using the mouse cursor on the side-bar of a window (not ON the side
> bar cursor) to move up or down in the display becomes unmanageable when
> the window displays a content of several thousands lines. How will I
> prevent this "acceleration" from raising my blood pressure ?
> 
> (Note to self: write the solutions in the Cook Book)
> 
> With grateful thanks in advance, and best Xmas and New Year wishes from
> an old bugger in Paraguay (who started computing with punch cards on an
> IBM 1620 fifty years ago)
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