[CLOSED] [Dark Shell] Window border appears on second monitor when maximized

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Issue by Icexist
Tuesday Sep 24, 2013 at 17:30 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#5323

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Using Windows 7 64-bit and Brackets 31 (sprint 31 experimental build 0.31.0-9569 (On branch sprint-31-hotfix,sprint-31-hotfix dd28c6a6e))

Using dual monitors, a narrow band of the window overlaps into the second window when Brackets is fully maximized.

Attached images display the problem from both the right and left screens, the arrows indicating the split between monitors.

How to reproduce:

1. Open Brackets in a dual-monitor environment.
2. Open fullscreen by either pressing the fullscreen button or dragging to the top of the screen in Windows 7

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Comment by taylorthurlow
Tuesday Sep 24, 2013 at 21:37 GMT

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Can confirm. I'm running 3 monitors - the middle on has fullscreened Brackets loaded - each side of brackets has that white bar that extends onto each other monitor.

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Comment by peterflynn
Wednesday Sep 25, 2013 at 02:28 GMT

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Assigned@JeffryBooher. I can confirm too if I plug my Win 7 laptop into a second monitor.

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Comment by JeffryBooher
Wednesday Sep 25, 2013 at 02:36 GMT

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This is actually an FOL of all Windows that turn off theming except Microsoft Apps. So rather than have different code for XP and Windows Vista and Windows 8 -- we went with this. We should probably push this to PM since he would need to decide if he wants to invest in fixing this. It's only a problem when brackets has an active frame

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Comment by JeffryBooher
Wednesday Sep 25, 2013 at 02:37 GMT

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Actually it happens with an inactive frame as well...

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Comment by peterflynn
Wednesday Sep 25, 2013 at 03:13 GMT

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@JeffryBooher I disagree about FOL... It doesn't happen with Office, Chrome, or iTunes -- all of which also have custom window chrome. That seems like good evidence that it's feasible to fix.

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Comment by peterflynn
Wednesday Sep 25, 2013 at 03:14 GMT

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Clarified title

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Comment by JeffryBooher
Wednesday Sep 25, 2013 at 21:48 GMT

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@peterflynn I can send you a non themed app that's out of the box and it will do the same thing. This was something that I noticed early on and I posted to Microsoft's MSDN message board and the only response I got was that this is how it works on Windows with multiple monitors.

I'll ping@adrocknaphobia and see if he can get us some help from Microsoft. I spent a few days trying to solve it but came to the conclusion that it was just how it goes with this and that it wasn't worth spending a lot of time on. I have a barebones app that I wrote a back when I was trying to solve this that I can send to MS to see if anyone there has any suggestions...

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Comment by taylorthurlow
Wednesday Sep 25, 2013 at 22:06 GMT

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@JeffryBooher It seems like more of a problem that it is worth to have the new 'dark' theme. Admittedly I like the dark more than the original windows styling but if it means having this white bar on my preview monitors then I'd go back to windows themed aero any day. Perhaps an option to enable/disable the dark mode?

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Comment by njx
Wednesday Sep 25, 2013 at 22:57 GMT

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@peterflynn mentioned that Chrome doesn't exhibit this problem on Windows. Have we checked Chromium? If it doesn't have the problem, maybe we could look at the source to see what it's doing.

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Comment by peterflynn
Thursday Sep 26, 2013 at 17:10 GMT

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@JeffryBooher
Interesting behavior I noticed last night... perhaps a clue: other apps like Outlook & Chrome still seem to have a hit area that extends slightly onto the next monitor -- they just manage not to draw anything there. With Chrome, I actually get the horizontal-resize cursor over that area, even though the pixels there are from the app that legit belongs on that monitor. But with both apps, if the app doesn't have focus, clicking in that little strip will focus its window.

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Comment by genericandy
Friday Sep 27, 2013 at 16:06 GMT

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I am seeing this behavior as well. If you cannot solve the problem, at least allow us to disable the dark theme so those of use who are working in a 2 monitor environment can work around the problem.

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Comment by pthiess
Thursday Oct 03, 2013 at 17:14 GMT

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tagged for Sprint 33

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Comment by HamsterCoder
Friday Oct 04, 2013 at 15:17 GMT

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Wow, I would have never noticed this about chrome =) Cheers for windows!

Confirm this bug on Win 7, x64, starting sprint 31.

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Comment by mabasic
Wednesday Oct 09, 2013 at 08:21 GMT

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Same bug here.
Windows 7 x64, Brackets sprint 31.

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Comment by madcampos
Friday Oct 11, 2013 at 21:57 GMT

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i've got this bug on windows 8.1, brakets sprint 31.

as a posible solution on an app with custom chrome using node-webkit i overwride the default maximize and restore actions to just resize the window to the maximun available space.
the code is the following:

var config,
    gui = require('nw.gui'),
    win = gui.Window.get(),
    unmaximizedWindow = [window.outerWidth, window.outerHeight, window.screenLeft, window.screenTop];

win.maximize = function(){
    unmaximizedWindow = [window.outerWidth, window.outerHeight, window.screenLeft, window.screenTop];
    window.resizeTo(screen.availWidth, screen.availHeight);
    window.moveTo(0, 0);
}

win.unmaximize = function(){
    window.resizeTo(unmaximizedWindow[0], unmaximizedWindow[1]);
    window.moveTo(unmaximizedWindow[2] - screen.availLeft, unmaximizedWindow[3] - screen.availTop);
}

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Comment by JeffryBooher
Wednesday Oct 23, 2013 at 17:57 GMT

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Moving to sprint 34 as there won't be enough time left in 33 to fix; Moved this bug to the backlog to be reviewed and prioritized for sprint 34 (https://trello.com/c/pFO0rgs9)

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Comment by StanFisher
Wednesday Nov 27, 2013 at 15:53 GMT

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I see this issue in Windows 7 in Sprint 34. The maximized window is also overlapping behind the taskbar a little.

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Comment by vfalconi
Wednesday Dec 04, 2013 at 21:13 GMT

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I also see this issue in Win 7 with Sprint 34. I don't see the overlap with the taskbar (or maybe we're using different terms for the same thing...), but the icon in the top left of the window seems to be cut off slightly by the menu bar.

Not maximized:

Maximized:

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Comment by peterflynn
Wednesday Dec 04, 2013 at 21:17 GMT

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@vfalconi That sounds like a different issue. Can you file that as a new bug? (With the same two screenshots attached)

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Comment by VizuaaLOG
Monday Dec 16, 2013 at 20:20 GMT

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Just wondering if there is a fix for this as I regularly use two monitors and it is quite distracting when changing windows and seeing the white bar appearing or disappearing.

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Comment by peterflynn
Tuesday Dec 17, 2013 at 01:43 GMT

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@VizuaaLOG It's marked 'fix in progress' and set to the Sprint 36 milestone, so it should land in the first release in January.

This bug has fallen out of several sprints in the past, so those indicators aren't as reliable as they would be for most bugs... but in this case I believe@JeffryBooher has said he's very close to a finished fix now -- he's been working on it for quite some time already.

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Comment by sirodoht
Tuesday Dec 17, 2013 at 21:58 GMT

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Win 8.1, x64, sprint 34
When Brackets is maximized it extends some pixels below the taskbar. Probably the same bug?

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Comment by VizuaaLOG
Tuesday Dec 17, 2013 at 22:43 GMT

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@peterflynn Oh ok will look forward to that release :)

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Comment by Studio384
Tuesday Dec 17, 2013 at 22:56 GMT

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I can confirm the issue sirodoht mentioned here.

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Comment by mikkotikkanen
Wednesday Dec 18, 2013 at 19:04 GMT

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Same here.

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Comment by VizuaaLOG
Wednesday Dec 18, 2013 at 22:49 GMT

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@mikkotikkanen Kind of off topic but what theme is that?

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Comment by mikkotikkanen
Wednesday Dec 18, 2013 at 22:52 GMT

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Ambiance from Themes for Brackets -extension

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Comment by VizuaaLOG
Thursday Dec 19, 2013 at 17:33 GMT

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@mikkotikkanen Thanks :)

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Comment by peterflynn
Friday Dec 20, 2013 at 17:45 GMT

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@JeffryBooher I'm going to bump this up to a High so we really focus extra attention on getting the fix landed in Sprint 36. At this point this is basically our most-duped bug ever, so it is very high-profile. Lmk if you disagree with the priority.

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Comment by peterflynn
Thursday Jan 09, 2014 at 22:50 GMT

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Note: I've archived the user story https://trello.com/c/pFO0rgs9/1044-window-border-appears-on-second-monitor-when-maximized-windows-only which was basically just a dupe of this bug. We never pulled it into the sprints where this work was ongoing, and now the fix is about to land... so there didn't seem much point in keeping the card around anymore.