Resizing two "sticky" windows works incorrectly

[spamegg1]

• Cinnamon version - 5.4.12
• Distribution - Mint 21
• Graphics hardware and driver used

 ➜ inxi -G
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Picasso/Raven 2 [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Mobile Series]
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,ati
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon Vega 11 Graphics (raven LLVM 13.0.1 DRM 3.42
  5.15.0-47-generic)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 22.0.5

• 64 bit

Issue

Horizontally resizing two half-screen windows that are opened side-by-side results in the right window vertically shrinking by itself.

Steps to reproduce

1. Login to Guest account
2. Open a Nemo window with Super+E
3. Tile it to the left with Super+Left arrow
4. Open a Nemo window with Super+E
5. Tile it to the right with Super+Right arrow
6. Click and drag the mouse left-to-right on the separator between the two windows.
7. See issue. Here's a video:
   cinnamon-2022-09-15T092541+0300.webm

Notice that at the end of the video, the right window (which has now shrunk vertically) does not have a "resize cursor" at the bottom edge of it. So the window still "thinks" that it is vertically maximized.

Expected behaviour

Resizing horizontally should not shrink the window vertically.

[Elliot4444]

Same bug here. It does not matter if I use the Nvidia or Nouveau drivers.

Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060] driver: nvidia v: 520.56.06
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2
v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 520.56.06

[6630507]

I can reproduce this issue on Intel integrated graphics.

This issue (which I can also confirm) may be related:

linuxmint/muffin#659

[anaximeno]

I also had this problem.

[mbeardwell]

This is still the case in Cinnamon 5.6.8 on my Mint 21.1 x86-64 machine with AMD GPU.
I don't agree that this is a Nemo-exclusive issue. This happens to me for any Cinnamon windows snapped side-by-side. In my case, it is exactly as the original screen recording above shows. #11169 (comment)

[kantastisk]

Seeing this behavior on LMDE6 as well - Cinnamon 6.0.4. Happens in all apps, not specific to Nemo.

[elidoz]

I'm also seeing this.
I also noticed that the bug occurs when I resize while the right window is active, but not if the active window is the left one.
Also only the right window ever shrinks in size.
I also tried creating the windows in different orders and tiling them in different orders, and I found that it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is that the right window is active.

[censoredgit]

Linux mint 22, Cinnamon 6.2 - bug still not fixed

[ironhak]

Linux mint 22, Cinnamon 6.2.9 - bug still present.

Please can you fix this? Unfortunatly it's really really annoying... Thank's.

[virtuallyunknown]

Having the same issue on Linux Mint 22 "Wilma", I actually upgraded with the hopes this might be fixed. As others have mentioned, this is particularly annoying, especially during development or other tasks which require 2 windows side by side.

Would really appreciate if this is fixed, whenever the developers have time for it. Cheers!

[censoredgit]

I stopped waiting for a fix and switched to gnome. There is no such problem there, but there are others, but they are not as annoying as this one)

[ironhak]

I stopped waiting for a fix and switched to gnome. There is no such problem there, but there are others, but they are not as annoying as this one)

Sometimes I wonder why do we even bother and not stay on Windows/macos. Honestly there is not even one DE or distro that does not comes with the necessity of wasting time on GitHub trying to fix things.

[spamegg1]

Off-topic:

Sometimes I wonder why do we even bother and not stay on Windows/macos. Honestly there is not even one DE or distro that does not comes with the necessity of wasting time on GitHub trying to fix things.

I usually recommend that people stay on Windows / Mac. (Not being sarcastic, condescending or hyperbole)
You gotta lower your expectations by a lot when you use FOSS.
I remember that 21 year old Firefox bug that was fixed...

[ironhak]

Off-topic:

Sometimes I wonder why do we even bother and not stay on Windows/macos. Honestly there is not even one DE or distro that does not comes with the necessity of wasting time on GitHub trying to fix things.

I usually recommend that people stay on Windows / Mac. (Not being sarcastic, condescending or hyperbole) You gotta lower your expectations by a lot when you use FOSS. I remember that 21 year old Firefox bug that was fixed...
Then why do we even bother at all with FOSS? At the end the vast majority will go with the best option, that usually is not FOSS. I don't see any bright future for FOSS.