Bug 124465 - Cannot press Green MacOS X button to tile 2 windows
Summary: Cannot press Green MacOS X button to tile 2 windows
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.1.5.2 release
Hardware: All macOS (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords: bibisectRequest, regression
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2019-04-01 09:15 UTC by Tom Wilson
Modified: 2020-09-26 04:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
macOS 10.15.4, LO 6.4.3.2 (110.72 KB, image/png)
2020-04-29 09:29 UTC, steve
Details

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Description Tom Wilson 2019-04-01 09:15:27 UTC
Description:
Prior to the most recent version of LibreOffice, you could hold the green maximize button down in OS X Mojave and open two windows of Libre Office side by side, for comparison, copying etc. This no longer works. I hope you will be able to restore it. 
Regards, Tom

Steps to Reproduce:
1open two LibreOFfice documents in tabs
2.drag one document to desktop
3.place cursor on green maximize buttion
4.right click and hold green button
5.window will shrink
6 release cursor on green button
7 go to second document on desktop
8 place cursor on green maximize button
9 click and you will have two windows of libreoffice open side by side

Actual Results:
It does not work!

Expected Results:
two windows will open side by side


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: StartModule
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Mac OS X (All)
OS is 64bit: no
Comment 1 Alex Thurgood 2019-04-05 13:49:53 UTC
Confirming.

This still works in

Version: 6.0.7.3
Build ID: dc89aa7a9eabfd848af146d5086077aeed2ae4a5
Threads CPU : 4; OS : Mac OS X 10.14.4; UI Render : par défaut; 
Locale : fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); Calc: group

but is no longer functional in

Version: 6.1.5.2
Build ID: 90f8dcf33c87b3705e78202e3df5142b201bd805
Threads CPU : 4; OS : Mac OS X 10.14.4; UI Render : par défaut; 
Locale : fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded
Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2019-04-05 13:51:44 UTC
@Tor : I'm guessing that this might have something do with the fullscreen support modifications you carried out a while ago ?
Comment 3 How can I remove my account? 2019-04-05 14:14:51 UTC
Probably yes. I disagree with the "high:major" importance though.
Comment 4 Alex Thurgood 2019-04-05 15:57:51 UTC
(In reply to Tor Lillqvist from comment #3)
> Probably yes. I disagree with the "high:major" importance though.

Sure, no problem, robot behaviour on my part, as with most regressions that lose functionality - always hard to tell what users rely on to get their work done.
Comment 5 Tom Wilson 2019-04-05 16:03:46 UTC
(In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #4)
> (In reply to Tor Lillqvist from comment #3)
> > Probably yes. I disagree with the "high:major" importance though.
> 
> Sure, no problem, robot behaviour on my part, as with most regressions that
> lose functionality - always hard to tell what users rely on to get their
> work done.

As the original notifier, I think this problem is a high priority issue. I use it every day in my work and to suddenly not have it is a real problem and I hope it is fixed ASAP!!
Comment 6 steve 2020-04-29 09:29:06 UTC
This is macOS native window management and it works as expected on
macOS 10.15.4
LibreOffice 6.4.3.2
(see screenshot)

Long pressing the green bubble opens the menu where user can select on which monitor to show the document, left + right half of current monitor, or full size.

Off-topic: Generally for an efficient workflow I would recommend using a window manager like BetterTouchTool with keyboard short cuts, where you can move windows efficiently. Amethyst is a free open source window manager alternative, it does have a learning curve.
Comment 7 steve 2020-04-29 09:29:38 UTC
Created attachment 160064 [details]
macOS 10.15.4, LO 6.4.3.2
Comment 8 Alex Thurgood 2020-04-29 14:46:52 UTC
@Tom : The Green button on current Catalina macOS 10.15 allows you to allocate an open window to one half of the screen, and a second window to the opposite half of the screen, so I would say that the problem you describe no longer exists.

I have tested this with LibreOffice Vanilla, and
Version : 6.4.3.2
Build ID : 747b5d0ebf89f41c860ec2a39efd7cb15b54f2d8
Threads CPU : 8; OS : Mac OS X 10.15.4; UI Render : par défaut; VCL: osx; 
Locale : fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); Langue IHM : fr-FR
Calc: threaded

I don't see any issue here with either of these versions.
Comment 9 fennwall 2020-09-26 04:15:02 UTC Comment hidden (spam)