linuxmint / linuxmint/cinnamon

One tiled window needlessly resizes to unusable size when adjusting their horizontal sizes.

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Description

Distribution

Mint 21.3 and Mint 22 Beta (both affected)

Package version

6.2.7

Graphics hardware in use

Radeon and Nvidia 3080 on laptop

Frequency

Quite often

Bug description

One tiled window needlessly resizes to unusable size when adjusting their horizontal sizes. See image attached.

Steps to reproduce

Resize the horizontal layout of two side by side tiled windows. (Sometimes you need to go back and forth to make it happen.)
Upon further testing; it seems that if I tile the left window first this happens, but if I tile the right window first, it doesn't.

Expected behavior

Vertical height of the windows should not change with horizontal resizing.
Screenshot from 2024-07-22 16-35-28

Additional information

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue in Cinnamon 6.2.7 on the reported Mint setups: tile two windows side by side and adjust their horizontal sizes, trying both tiling orders. Investigate the window-tiling behavior and verify that horizontal resizing leaves the windows' vertical height unchanged without triggering the reported unusable size.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, linux
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
39/100

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