I am having a weird issue with Firefox and Firefox Developer Edition.
When Firefox is started, somehow the actual window that is drawn on the is smaller than what Gnome Shell detects.
This will cause the window to not respond to clicks the way you would expect it, because even though you only see a small window, somehow you still have to click as if the window would be as big as Gnome Shell thinks it is.
So just an example:
If I want to click on the minimize button of the window, I actually have to click on the empty space where the minimize button would have been.
I have screenshots but for some reason I get an error if Iβm trying to submit my post with them included.
I get this issue consistently and then I have to kill Firefox a few times until it starts up with the correct window size.
This is a fresh install of Manjaro via the Architect. I am using the default Gnome installation and the issue was present before I installed anything else. I just needed to resize the Firefox window and then close it.
I experience this as well, on KDE. The window starts out as technically maximised but the contents donβt fit. Intel, modesetting driver.
The way I work around it is to double-click the top of the screen where the titlebar would have been if it were maximised, and un-maximize it that way. Alternatively right-click the entry in the task manager and untick Maximise there. If you maximise it again afterwards it behaves as it should.
Same problem here. I use a similar workaround to @zorael , while having the focus on the windows, I press Super+Down and then Super+Up on gnome shell to maximize and minimize the window. Still, it is an odd behavior, even more now that I know that it also happens in KDE. Does anyone know if this happens in other Linux distros? Itβs a problem hard to describe, and Iβm not sure how to search it on bugzilla. I will try to take a screenshot the next time it happens.
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I found it. Apparently, it was first reported on an Arch distro years ago. It mentions XWayland, but I experience the same in pure X. Check the issue 1489463 in bugzilla.
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Example from today. This happened after trying to restore a window split to the left. The screenshot doesnβt represent it, but the white space looked like a glitchy clone of the actual window below.
I have met such thing on Arch Plasma this year sometimes. At July I turn to Manjaro Plasma. It still happened sometimes. A temporary way is minimize it then maximize it.
Then you close it properly. I know when it restores session when you shutdown the computer without closing Firefox properly this can happen. Do you all have the session restoration enabled?
I would like to weigh in with some of my observations here. I had this same issue every time I started a new session of Firefox, for about 3-4 stable releases. Just as it mysteriously appeared, so did it vanish, and I thought the Linux Gods had spared me.
Unfortunately I learnt the hard way that nothing good (or bad for that matter) is ever lasting. I have been facing another issue with my Manjaro build, for some time now, which forces me to use REIUSB to save my Linux session and restart my PC. And as you might have guessed, the issue came back, but this time was limited to restoring my previous session.
Every time I restored the previous session, the window was resized awkwardly with gnome shell hovering above. I had almost accepted my fate, when just today, I was doing some digging and I went into profile directory of Firefox (go to help>>More Troubleshooting Info>>Open Directory) and poked around until I came across an aptly named file called βsessionCheckpoints.jsonβ.
I simply edited it with a Text Editor and changed the line βfinal-ui-startupβ from true to false. Restarted my session, and it broke it further, but after I managed to close both the text editor and Firefox and restored the session again, it all seems to be finally fixed!!
For anyone else that has been facing this peculiar issue, do give it a shot and let me know if it worked for you. Stay Strong!
I would try it, but I would like to know what does that final-ui-startup Firefox option means, first. Itβs 3 AM here, so maybe my head isnβt as sharp as it should, but I canβt find any documentation of that.
I totally get that. Iβd have reservations too if I didnβt know what else it would affect, but I just checked, even though I changed it from βtrueβ to βfalseβ. Right now, itβs back to true again, which leads me to believe that it affects the current session of Firefox.
I just shot my shot, and apparently it worked. I hope it does for you as well.