New subject: [Bug 37036] Microsoft Office 2010 / 2007: Maximize button goes crazy in certain conditions

5 Aug 2014


      http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37036
Bug ID: 37036
           Summary: Microsoft Office 2010 / 2007: Maximize button goes
                    crazy in certain conditions
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.7.23
          Hardware: x86-64
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org
          Reporter: eierfrucht@gmail.com
I have recreated this bug on KDE, LXDE and XFCE running their corresponding
native windows managers and Compiz alike. Distributions affected: Lubuntu,
Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Arch Linux and probably more. This currently happens with
Wine 1.7.23 but has been there since Office 2007 / 2010 became supported in
Wine.
The bug(s) manifestate(s) as follows:
Open any MS Office 2007 / 2010 app, maximize it, press the button again to
'unmaximize' it and there you go, you can no longer use the Maximize button
until you restart the app. That's basically the end of the story for LXDE and
XFCE users but KDE offers a workaround which in turn leads to discovery of
further bugs.
If you are a lucky user of KWin, ticking both "Ignore requested geometry ->
Force -> Yes" and "Obey geometry restrictions -> Force -> No" in app-specific
KWin settings for any particular Office 2007 / 2010 app seemingly solves the
above described issue, and Maximize button starts working as expected.
But if you minimize a maximized window to tray, restoring it back will lead to
an 'unmaximized' window appearing on the screen, which suprprisingly shows an
'unmaximize' symbol on its Maximize button and won't let you move or resize it
-- i.e. the application still thinks the window is maximized (but after
restoring from tray, it is not!) So a further click on the Maximize button is
needed to enable resizing and moving the window, and a third click to proprely
maximize it again.
There's a well-known 'workaround' -- that is turning off the Wine option that
allows the window manager to control the windows -- but then such windows won't
show in the task bar which renders this 'workaround' pretty much useless.
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