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When the display goes to sleep due to lack of input or whatever, you have to drag upwards with your mouse to unlock the screen. Like some common dirty frickin'
by panarky 9y ago
When the display goes to sleep due to lack of input or whatever, you have to drag upwards with your mouse to unlock the screen. Like some common dirty frickin' smart phone.
Yes!
Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY.
Double yes!
- megaman22 9y agoI will never understand why Ubuntu took a very nice desktop Linux distribution, and fucked it up with all these mobile and tablet centric UI absurdities.
- hiccuphippo 9y agoIsn't it Gnome or the *dm? I use Arch with vanilla Gnome3 and it has the same drag up thing. I just press enter.
- rwmj 9y agoMostly GNOME is to blame for this.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- Yetanfou 9y agoThey did that because they'd caught the one-size-fits-all virus which made them yearn for Ubuntu phones and Ubuntu tablets. Those ventures did not really come to fruition but the side effects still show. Given the prevalence of touch-screen laptops it wouldn't surprise me if part of this idea actually does find a niche to settle in on convertible devices.
- jackhack 9y agoIt's the way of the world. Apple and Microsoft seem hell-bent on introducing "phone/tablet" type gestures into their desktop UIs also. It seems only natural that linux distros would follow. Lesson for the kids making these decisions: "new and/or different" != better
- tjoff 9y agoNo, Unity came before Windows 8. And with Windows 8 noone actually used Metro, the real desktop environment wasn't really touched so you always had a polished desktop-oriented UI one key stroke away. Not so with ubuntu that single-handedly obliterated the desktop Linux market dominance it had.
- catach 9y agoOn the other hand, browser mouse gestures were awesome for half a decade before smartphones were a thing.
- ben940830298432 9y agoGnome is more keyboard centric than mobile centric.
- jiveturkey 9y agoNever? It's not that hard to understand. To gain market share. Current users aren't going to abandon it because of these various stupidities. The market they need to capture is the market that wants a look-and-feel-alike product.
- hansjorg 9y agoJust press enter to get to the password prompt without using the mouse.
- yoodenvranx 9y ago> Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY. I use this all the time when working with several monitors. Just press Alt, click somewhere onto a window, move this window to a different monitor, smash window to the top of the screen. Bam, instant monitor-switching of full-screen windows. (And yes, usually I use keyboard shortcuts for this but when the hand is already on the mouse then this is the best way to do it)
- sametmax 9y agoI love those features so much. Dragging the window near a side of the screen make it fills half of it too.
- qznc 9y agoI learned that Windows has another nice variation on this: When you vertically resize (not drag!) a window to the top, it vertically maximizes the window. On Linux I configure a double click on the top bar to do this. I like to vertically maximize my terminals.
- sametmax 9y agoWindows has a few tricks that are nice. One feature I miss from it is that if you drag and drop something from a windows below another, the one from which you drag the item from doesn't get focused and doesn't raise to the front.
- jasonkostempski 9y agoIn Xfce, you can put the mouse where it shows the resize arrow and double click to maximize in that direction. Windows has that for vertical but not horizontal. Neither has it for diagonal, it would be sweet if that pushed the activated corner to the desktop corner.
- amygdyl 9y agoAlt-TAB thru to the window you want[0] WindowsKey-ARROW aligns top to bottom fully, or if left and right, to the side, half screen (leaving the alt tab reduced windows still selectable, so I frequently switch to the mouse then, which is fluid for next seeking to insert my cursor to edit)) and I think Page Up maximises full screen but again not recently used this option. Yes, Windows has had really very worthwhile UI shortcuts for a long time, since 7 definitely, I skipped XP mostly, W2K got just long enough support on contract I never saw SP1 or 2 even . [0] I think you can go straight to the window you want by hitting the number of the window in order but I've never used this as too many windows and I'm in a phone now, but this could be cute if you're strict about your desktop layout and I'm a rare one who isn't so particular, a laxity learned from a spell in front line help desk
- rootlocus 9y ago> Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY. This also works in Xfce and I love it.
- keithpeter 9y agoIn xfce you can switch that behaviour off in Window Manager Tweaks and the Accessibility tab. Not sure about Gnome shell.
- isostatic 9y agoI use xfce, and have Alt-Left half width full height on the left, Alt-Right does the same on the right. Alt-up is half height, full width on top, Alt-down on bottom, and Alt-F10 maximise. I tend to only use the mouse to point to the window I want focus on, although on the occasion I do use a mouse I have it that dragging to the top/bottom/left/right does the same behaviour. I had to really think about those shortcuts (on my phone at the moment) as it's just muscle memory.
- collyw 9y agoI never noticed until now. (After just posting a comment that I stuck with Xfce to avoid crap like that...)
- solarkraft 9y ago> Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY. Because it's a handy gesture. > you have to drag upwards with your mouse to unlock the screen. Like some common dirty frickin' smart phone. Yeah, that's pretty stupid.
- friesen 9y agoYou can also just press enter and type your password like normal.
- seiferteric 9y agoI've noticed at least in 17.10 that hitting enter does not always seem to work and I have to drag up (this took me a while to even figure out).
- da_chicken 9y agoYeah, but for the past 25 years or so, the conventional way to wake up a desktop computer whose monitor has gone to sleep was a nonspecific mouse wiggle or keyboard press. Why change that? Like how big of a deal was accidentally waking up your monitor? What problem are we fixing? What's our usability goal here? Is this requirement discoverable to the user or not?
- cabalamat 9y ago> Why change that? Because it's NEW!! And therefore BETTER!!!! > What problem are we fixing? The problem that desktops were BORING, they had always worked the same way for SO LONG. They needed to be NEW! And therefore BETTER!!!! I would like to switch round the accelerator and brake pedals on the cars of the people who make decisions like this. I'm sure they would thank me (provided they survived the experience), because having the pedals in the same position is OLD and BORING and changing them would be NEW!! And BETTER!!!!
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- ASalazarMX 9y ago> Dragging a window to the top of the screen maximizes the window. FOR GODS SAKE WHY. It must be great for avoiding accidental unlocks, but I always feel a bit dirty swiping up the mouse to unlock.
- sirfz 9y agoActually you can just directly type your password without dragging/pressing anything.
- __david__ 9y agoYeah, the gnome lockscreen drove me nuts until I figured that out.
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- jasonkostempski 9y agoXubuntu, all the benefits of using a popular Linux distro without the UI surprises every few years.