GNU bug report logs - #16340
24.3.50; Maximize to the left/right side of the screen (on Windows 7 & 8)

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Message #40 received at 16340 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 16340 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#16340: 24.3.50; Maximize to the left/right side of the screen
 (on Windows 7 & 8)
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:19:04 +0100

> That's not really true, or at least, is not all the truth. Open
> Notepad, grab it by the caption, and move it to the left or right;
> Windows will "maximize it" to half-display left or right. Then grab it
> again from the caption, and move it off the side of the display:
> Windows restores its previous size. So the half-maximized left/right
> is some sort of state of a window, it's not just a resizing, because
> on a normal resizing Windows does not remember the previous dimensions
> of the window. Vertical maximization (Win+Shift+Up) is also a
> "sort-of-maximized" state that can be restored with Win+Shift-Down.

Can/do we trigger that "restore" from emacs?

martin

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