"Windows" Section/Setting Forces Window Button Placement To Left Side On Open

Bug #1906535 reported by Alan Diggs
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This bug affects 5 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
MATE Desktop
Unknown
Unknown
mate-control-center (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

When window buttons are on the right hand side (as set by MATE Tweak), opening the "Windows" configuration in Control Center automatically switches window buttons to the left hand side, rather than leaving the current setting.

Fresh install of Ubuntu MATE 20.10

System information:

System: Kernel: 5.8.0-31-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 Desktop: MATE 1.24.1
           Distro: Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)
Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: MPG X570 GAMING PLUS (MS-7C37) v: 2.0
           serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: A.B0 date: 10/29/2020
CPU: Info: 8-Core model: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 L2 cache: 4096 KiB
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm bogomips: 139994
           Speed: 4377 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 4377 2: 4375 3: 4373 4: 4374 5: 4388
           6: 4369 7: 4376 8: 4375 9: 4367 10: 4373 11: 4364 12: 4369 13: 4354 14: 4368 15: 4362
           16: 4373
Graphics: Device-1: AMD Navi 10 [Radeon RX 5600 OEM/5600 XT / 5700/5700 XT] vendor: XFX Pine
           driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 2f:00.0
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: amdgpu,ati
           unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (NAVI10 DRM 3.38.0 5.8.0-31-generic LLVM 11.0.0)
           v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.1 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: AMD Navi 10 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 2f:00.1
           Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel
           v: kernel bus ID: 31:00.4
           Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
           bus ID: 1-2:3
           Device-4: C-Media Blue Snowball type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
           bus ID: 1-1:2
           Device-5: Kingston HyperX 7.1 Audio type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
           bus ID: 3-1:2
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-31-generic
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
           vendor: Micro-Star MSI X570-A PRO driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 27:00.0
           IF: enp39s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 2.27 TiB used: 137.52 GiB (5.9%)
           ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G3X0C-00SJG0 size: 465.76 GiB
           ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 size: 465.76 GiB
           temp: 21 C
           ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 size: 465.76 GiB
           temp: 23 C
           ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 size: 465.76 GiB
           temp: 24 C
           ID-5: /dev/sdd vendor: Western Digital model: WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 size: 465.76 GiB
           temp: 19 C
Partition: ID-1: / size: 463.85 GiB used: 6.92 GiB (1.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
           ID-2: /boot size: 945.6 MiB used: 214.4 MiB (22.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
           ID-3: /home size: 463.85 GiB used: 6.92 GiB (1.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 32.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 37.0 C
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: amdgpu fan: 0
Info: Processes: 427 Uptime: 14m Memory: 31.34 GiB used: 2.15 GiB (6.9%) Init: systemd
           runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 2080 Shell: Bash v: 5.0.17 inxi: 3.1.07

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: mate-control-center 1.24.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-31.33-generic 5.8.17
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Wed Dec 2 08:56:55 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-12-02 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
SourcePackage: mate-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Alan Diggs (schykle) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in mate-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen) wrote :

Reported a bug upstream with some analysis of the issue. https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-control-center/issues/640

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Norbert (nrbrtx) wrote :

Can you reproduce this on newer Ubuntu MATE version?

Changed in mate-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
tags: removed: groovy
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