| Summary: | Keyboard shortcuts for moving windows around | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] kwin | Reporter: | Viekas Kuriiri <binsh00> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | ||
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59161 *** Subject: Re: Keyboard shortcuts for moving windows around
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59161 ***
FWIW, this isn't exactly the same as 59161 -- here's the difference:
53552 = moving windows as if dragging with the mouse, by n pixels, in a
given direction. So "move window in direction D by N pixels".
59161 = moving windows to a side/corner of the screen in one step.
So "move window to corner C" or "screen-edge S".
My experience BTW is that the 59161 mode is more usable than 53552,
and that the "corner" mode of 59161 is more usable than the "screen
edge" mode.
For example, let's say you have a browser window open on the right side,
and there's a terminal underneath that you want to expose, so that
you can type into the terminal while viewing the webpage.
To move the browser window from the right-hand side to the left, with
53552, is a matter of moving the mouse to focus the window; then holding
down the "move window left N pixels" key until it hits the desired
position; then letting go. Depending on the setting of "N", the
holding-down-the-key step could take a few seconds, and requires direct
user attention.
To move the browser window from the right-hand side to the left, with
59161, is a matter of moving the mouse to focus the window then tapping
the "move window to upper-left corner" key once. No more user attention
is required once that key or key-chord has been tapped.
Hope that clears some stuff up! cheers, ;)
--j.
No, "window packing" is not about moving windows by n pixels. It's about moving a window as much as possible until it hits an edge of another window or that of the screen. I agree that this feature is not exactly like the one described in 59161, but I think that this one would be even more useful. You can easily move windows to different corners with "window packing", and while it might take two or more keypresses (depending on the number of open windows on the current desktop), I think it's easy enough. Besides, with this feature you could do things like position three xterms side by side on the desktop, which you can't do with the "corners only" approach. But I think this is mostly a matter of taste. So perhaps both of these features might be worth implementing :-). Please see the patch I posted at 59161, it implements "packing". |
Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1) Installed from: Compiled From Sources Compiler: gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030124 (Debian prerelease) OS: Linux Please include keyboard shortcuts for moving individual windows around the desktop, in similar way as in GNOME/Sawfish's pack-window-{up,down,left,right}. Please also consider having reasonable default bindings for these shortcuts such as ctrl-meta-{up,down,left,right}. Thanks.