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When I used Unity, I remember seeing the setting for the Sticky Edges in Settings -> Displays, but I can't find that option in Gnome. Where can I turn on/off Sticky Edges in Gnome?

Pedro Gordo
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  • Try fiddling with some options in the Compiz Config Settings Manager from the package compizconfig-settings-manager. – Nicholas Stommel Nov 25 '17 at 23:29
  • on a dual screen setup, if you have the dock on the right screen with 'auto-hide' it can act like a sticky edge. just move the dock to the left most screen - or disable autohide – Tom Carchrae Jan 28 '19 at 18:51

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Sorry for the late answer, but better late than never?

The setting you are looking for can be done graphically in dconf-editor, navigating to /org/gnome/shell/overrides and toggling the value edge-tiling, as appears below:

dconf-editor

To do this using a CLI, enter the command

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.overrides edge-tiling false

to turn off the tiling at the edge of the screen, or

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.overrides edge-tiling true

to set it back on.

Kevin Bowen
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Charles Green
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  • No issue with the late answer :-) however, I don't have the /org folder. :( – Pedro Gordo Nov 28 '17 at 17:32
  • @sedulam Which version of Ubuntu are you running? – Charles Green Nov 28 '17 at 17:39
  • @sedulam I checked 14.04, 16.04 and 17.10 - the org folder is present in all of these... – Charles Green Nov 28 '17 at 18:41
  • I installed the 16.04.3 with Gnome, could that be it? These are the folders I have: bin/ etc/ lib/ mnt/ run/ sys/
    boot/ home/ lib64/ opt/ sbin/ tmp/
    cdrom/ lost+found/ proc/ snap/ usr/ dev/ media/ root/ srv/ var/     – Pedro Gordo Nov 28 '17 at 19:02
  • @sedulam Ah - I have confused you! Start the program dconf-editor -> the paths for the settings are inside that program (not directories on your disk) – Charles Green Nov 28 '17 at 19:04
  • Got it now, unfortunately, regardless of the value, I still keep having sticky edges (I want to turn it off) :( thanks anyway though! – Pedro Gordo Nov 28 '17 at 19:12
  • @sedulam I'll be offline for a bit here - there has been some confusion in the past about what "Sticky Edges" does - what behaviour are you trying to stop? – Charles Green Nov 28 '17 at 19:14
  • When I drag a window to a corner of one of my screens, the window jumps a bit and sticks to the edges. Also, when trying to remove the window from the border, the movement is not smooth, because it suddenly jumps after dragging it a bit, but it doesn't move before the jump. – Pedro Gordo Nov 28 '17 at 19:26
  • I disabled this and still had the issue. I realized that it was the dock on my primary display (my top display) that was causing the mouse to 'stick' at the boundary. Moving the dock to the left side solved the issue. – fIwJlxSzApHEZIl May 09 '18 at 15:22
  • I managed to resolve it by rearranging displays position. Seems one was slightly too high in the GUI. Once I rearranged this it worked. 18.04.1 LTS – Glorious Kale Oct 22 '18 at 07:48
  • For me it was the "Workspaces to dock" extension causing the extra stickiness. Changing this dock location to bottom using Gnome-Tweaks fixed it. You can also just disable it. – Karim Sonbol Jul 02 '19 at 10:07
  • unfortunately when I drag my mouse pointer across monitor boundaries, it still sticks as it crosses the boundary which is super annoying :( – Alexander Mills Feb 27 '20 at 23:40