'Dead zone' on large screen with multi-screen display

[jal-frezie]

Expected behaviour

To be able to place a window anywhere on either screen

Actual behaviour

Trying to drag a window to the centre of the larger screen reveals that there is a 'no-go area' and if you drag right across it, the window snaps to the other side when exiting this area.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

1. Connect two screens to your PC, one wider (in pixels) than the other.
2. Open mate-display-properties. Set the narrower screen as primary, and position it above or below the wider screen, so the centres of the two screens are vertically aligned.
3. Apply and click to keep the new arrangement.
4. Now drag the mate-display-properties window (or any small window) across the larger screen. It cannot be placed in the centre but will snap from one side to the other.
5. If the left or right sides of the two screens are vertically aligned, the problem does not occur.

I thought this might be a LightDM problem but it does not occur in Cinnamon desktop so I figure it must be mate-desktop.

MATE general version

1.16.2

Package version

Linux Distribution

Debian 9

Link to downstream report of your Distribution

[cuthbeorht]

I have the exact same issue. @jal-frezie Have you found a fix for this?

[jal-frezie]

Hi David, I switched back to using MATE a few months ago when I started to get weird problems with Xfce4. I haven't had the dead zone problem since. I'm now using MATE 1.24.1 with Debian Bullseye. Cheers     Jasper

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