Category: GNOME

Disabling edge tiling on GNOME 3.28 / Debian testing (buster)

Posted on by Andy
Contents
      1. We’ve been here before
      2. Things that work
      3. Things that don’t work

We’ve been here before ^

In an earlier post I mentioned how to disable edge tiling. That was for my desktop machine which at the time was running Ubuntu 17.10 and GNOME 3.26.

My laptop, however, currently runs Debian testing (buster) with GNOME 3.28, and this method does not work.

Things that work ^

In fact, one of the ways the Internet suggested that didn’t work for Ubuntu, does work on my Debian laptop. That is:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.shell.overrides edge-tiling false

I have no idea why, sorry.

Things that don’t work ^

So, for my Debian buster laptop running GNOME 3.28 under Xorg, the things that don’t work are:

$ dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/classic-overrides/edge-tiling false
$ dconf write /org/gnome/mutter/edge-tiling false
$ dconf write /org/gnome/shell/overrides/edge-tiling false

Disabling edge tiling on GNOME 3.26 / Ubuntu 17.10

Posted on by Andy
Contents
      1. Edge tiling?
      2. Things that work
      3. Things that people on the Internet say work, but don’t – a non-exhaustive list

Edge tiling? ^

It’s that thing where when you drag a window so it hits the edge of the screen, GNOME offers to maximise the window. Generally the number of times I will knowingly want to maximise a window by dragging it to the top of the screen is 0, while the number of times it happens accidentally is over 9,000 by lunch time.

Things that work ^

$ dconf write /org/gnome/mutter/edge-tiling false

It should take effect immediately.

If you like a pointy clicky way to do it then install dconf-editor package and run dconf-editor, but really all you will do is click down the tree org → gnome → mutter and then toggle edge-tiling so I don’t really see the point.

Things that people on the Internet say work, but don’t – a non-exhaustive list ^

These suggestions silently fail to do anything, as far as I can see. They may have been correct for earlier versions of GNOME, but I am using GNOME on Ubuntu 17.10 and they didn’t work for me.

dconf write /org/gnome/shell/extensions/classic-overrides/edge-tiling false
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.overrides edge-tiling false
dconf write /org/gnome/shell/overrides/edge-tiling false