How do I exclude Mint Menu from 'Place Windows' (Compiz)

[tpprynn]

The standard Mint Menu is dumped half an inch further up the screen if I have Place Windows activated in Compiz, but randomly, not every time. I'm sure there was some way of excluding some types of window/applet from being affected by Compiz settings but it's been years since I felt familiar with Compiz. Does anyone here know?

Thanks.

[Sabaki]

Good question. It took me a little playing around to figure out I needed Place Windows to keep apps from opening with their title bar hidden under the mate panel at the top of my screen. Anyway, this looks a little complicated, but there is some info at http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Place
that looks like the right stuff, if I can just figure it out. I'll post here if I do. If you get it solved, be sure and post it here for me and others, too.

Chuck Bell

[pepperbox]

I also have this problem, but on XFCE. So it is clearly not a Mate related problem.
Do the Linux Mint developers know about this bug?
It is 100% reproducible on every fresh or updated Linux Mint installation.
Come on people, we need to make some noise in order to get this fixed.

[Monsta]

Do the Linux Mint developers know about this bug?

Yes.

We didn't know that it's related to "Place Windows" feature though.
Does the problem go away 100% if you disable that feature?

[Monsta]

So... looks like it's a cross-desktop and cross-distro issue in Compiz itself. See this bug report.