Snapping to the side of the screen in GNOME disables the resizing of the window
When I snap to the left or to the right edge of the screen, the window is no longer re-sizable. I didn't have this problem in Unity. Does anybody have a solution for this?
System Info
Ubuntu 17.04 (kernel information: Linux 4.10.0-37-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 6 20:20:37 UTC 2017)
GNOME Shell 3.24.2
Unfortunately it's an intended half-tiling feature (you may call it a bug if you wish) and it seems there's no workaround. There was an option to do it by super+middle mouse button drag in older versions of GNOME shell, but it seems it's been dropped.
According to a one OMG! Ubuntu! article, GNOME v3.26 (the one to be shipped with Ubuntu 17.10) has a feature which lets users tile windows to available width (not an arbitrary 50%) [see this video demo] and resize both the half-maximised windows at the same time just by resizing one or other.
For advanced tiling options you may look for some extensions in extensions.gnome.org, for example:
- zTile
- gTile
- Tilingnome
- shellshape
- ShellTile
etc.
Update from the original asker
I tried some of these extensions. zTile, gTile seem a bit buggy at the moment (at least with my current configuration). I tried ShellTile and can confirm that this does fix this "issue".