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I upgraded 16.04 to 18.04 LTS. How can I re-enable sticky edges in the new gnome? I cannot find anything in settings or tweak configuration...

William Martens
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    Having same issue. Did you find a way to do this on ubuntu 18? – Kareem Aug 17 '18 at 19:08
  • @membersound (although a bit late) hopefully my answer below would work, Regards – William Martens Oct 07 '20 at 11:20
  • @membersound do you have a multiple monitor setup? If so, how are they "layed" out? – William Martens Oct 08 '20 at 15:02
  • I think these might be useful and address your issue. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1122331/mouse-snagging-on-autohidden-vertical-dock-between-monitors https://askubuntu.com/questions/1140789/18-04-problem-moving-mouse-cursor-between-monitors – Crighton Oct 09 '20 at 18:27
  • Hello I think these might address this issue https://askubuntu.com/questions/1140789/18-04-problem-moving-mouse-cursor-between-monitors https://askubuntu.com/questions/1122331/mouse-snagging-on-autohidden-vertical-dock-between-monitors – Crighton Oct 09 '20 at 18:28
  • Are you sure it is not working???? I don't see my mouse stopping (on 18.04 or 20.04) between screens... but when I have a window that I am dragging between them, It does seem to pause a bit... (it may very well be that my hand is doing what my eye wants to see happen, because I was staring at it so long).. i have never paid attention to the actual behavior in anything before 18.04 so i dont know if it is different from what i am seeing now... What is for sure is that the toggle is no long there on the display config gui... from reading, it looks like you can have it with compiz – WU-TANG Oct 11 '20 at 00:02
  • Regarding bounty: see my comments below William's answer. @Crighton, I fear those links did not provide a sollution. – Aart Stuurman Oct 12 '20 at 09:27
  • You might want to check out this gnome extention. That did the trick for me on 18.04 – Robert Riedl Oct 13 '20 at 10:15
  • Try putting your dock on one of the middle edges of your monitors... and try toggling the dock's auto-hide... Most existing questions are how to get rid of it... – WU-TANG Oct 13 '20 at 11:56

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Would this work?

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter edge-tiling true

Regards.

EDIT: You can also look at the dash-to-dock settings, maybe something's there that will be useful

William Martens
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  • If this wouldn't work for some reason, please reply and explain what went wrong, I had this problem before for some time ago. – William Martens Oct 07 '20 at 11:20
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    I think we are not talking about the same thing. As far as I know sticky edges means that your mouse is shortly blocked from moving to the next monitor. This is useful if your dock is on the side of the other monitor, making it easier click on(you can't accidentally move too far into the other monitor instead). I am not sure what edge-tiling is. I have enabled it but it seems to not make a difference. Dash-to-dock does not have an option as far as I can find. – Aart Stuurman Oct 08 '20 at 12:35
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    I see, edge tiling has to do with dragging windows to the side of the screen and making them full screen or half the screen size automatically. This is something different. – Aart Stuurman Oct 08 '20 at 12:37
  • See the top answer here for sticky edges: https://askubuntu.com/questions/119281/what-is-the-function-of-the-sticky-edges-on-off-setting-in-displays – Aart Stuurman Oct 08 '20 at 12:37
  • Ah I see, the second answer says the first answer is wrong. That's fairly unfortunate. For the bounty I'm looking for the functionality I described before :( – Aart Stuurman Oct 08 '20 at 12:42
  • @AartStuurman Hot corners is not the same thing right? – William Martens Oct 08 '20 at 12:54
  • No, that is something different :) – Aart Stuurman Oct 09 '20 at 11:06
  • I think this is what I'm looking for : https://askubuntu.com/questions/465014/how-can-i-enable-edge-stop-velocity-in-14-04 – Aart Stuurman Oct 09 '20 at 11:10
  • @AartStuurman Oh Okay; Shall I add it to my answer? – William Martens Oct 12 '20 at 09:35
  • It is not a solution, but it better describes what I'm looking for. – Aart Stuurman Oct 12 '20 at 09:46