[Linux] Bug on Spotify desktop: can't maximize window

[alcidauk]

Hello,

I've got a bug that did not appears on the first time I launched spotify but since the second time. When I click the maximize button, the window seems to be maximized but immediately comes back to its initial position and size.

At the first launch, I managed to do it. I suppose so sth happen in configuration files or so.

I'm on a little bit modified OS configuration:

  Ubuntu 14.04 with Xfce as GUI (4.10) (but not xubuntu)

[miguedrive]

Hello @alcidauk, what version of Spotify are you using? 

[alcidauk]

Hi,

my version is 0.9.17.1.g9b85d436,

[miguedrive]

I'm playing with a VM to check this issue, you are using a 64bit system right ? any other tweak in Ubuntu that you have made? what about video drivers?

[alcidauk]

Yes, I am. 

Here are some informations about my computer:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3450 CPU @ 3.10GHz

Result of a lshw -c video:

PCI (sysfs)  
  *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       produit: GF119 [GeForce GT 620 OEM]
       fabriquant: NVIDIA Corporation
       identifiant matériel: 0
       information bus: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: a1
       bits: 64 bits
       horloge: 33MHz
       fonctionnalités: vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
       ressources: irq:46 mémoire:f6000000-f6ffffff mémoire:e8000000-efffffff mémoire:f0000000-f1ffffff portE/S:e000(taille=128) mémoire:f7000000-f707ffff

I did no other tweak but I've got two screens (I reproduced the issue on the two screens)

[alcidauk]

I just run it from a shell, and I get this message :

default value of option force_s3tc_enable overridden by environment.

May it have a relation with the issue ?

[miguedrive]

Might be related, I've read that downgrading "libxcursor" pkg solved the problem, try that while I finish my VM install 🙂

[miguedrive]

ok, I have the same problem, downgrading pkg didn't work, I'm checking if there's some other file I can tweak

[miguedrive · Accepted solution]

Well I found the solution:

1) Go to Applications - Settings - Windows Manager Tweaks - Compositor

2) Enable Display compositing

3) Select all options in that section

4) Go to Workspaces and select all

I guess the solution might be selecting just one option, but try it and tell me.

[alcidauk]

Great, I'm away from my computer yet but I'll try this tomorrow.

In any case, thanks a lot for the quick answer you gave, such a support is really appreciable.

I tell you tomorrow if it did the trick.

[alcidauk]

Well, as strange as it sounds, this is the "Show shadows under regular windows" property that is required to avoid the issue.

I don't know what is the link between shadows and maximizing windows but it does the job.

Thanks a lot again !