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Yep, several: 1. If the windows are maximized, unmaximize them by clicking on a button or by dragging the window down from the top of the screen. Arrange as y

by fader 15y ago

Yep, several: 1. If the windows are maximized, unmaximize them by clicking on a button or by dragging the window down from the top of the screen. Arrange as you please. 2. Drag a window to the left or right side of the screen. It will resize and snap to the edge of the window taking up 50% of the display. (Great for having two windows side-by-side.) 3. Use Ctrl+Alt+[number pad key] to place windows in multiple configurations. E.g. Ctrl+Alt+9 will place a window in the upper right corner. Pressing it multiple times will cycle through various sizes. Plenty of consideration was taken for larger screens -- Unity has much better support for them than GNOME 2 did. It might need to be advertised a bit better.

igouy 15y ago
> 1. If the windows are maximized Please Unity stop maximizing the window! > 2. Drag a window to the left or right side of the screen. It will resize and snap to the edge of the window taking up 50% of the display. (Great for having two windows side-by-side.) How do I stop Unity from resizing and snapping the window? I spend more effort and suffer more distraction undoing Unity's "helpfulness" than I ever spent on window management before, on any OS.
- sp332 15y ago
  You'll have to install the package compizconfig-settings-manager, and disable the "Grid" plugin.
  - igouy 15y ago
    Thanks. I've just installed compizconfig-settings-manager and now - before I had a chance to disable the "Grid" plugin kkkrrsh - the launcher won't appear, there's no menu bar at the top of the screen, and I kind of hope the desktop will magically fix itself when I reboot the machine. Edit: Nope, the desktop is toast. So now I have to figure out how to open a terminal window, and how to reset Unity, before I can even try to stop Unity being a control-freak. I feel so lucky to have a Windows partition that might allow me to be productive in the meantime! Edit2: Better and better - I can open a terminal window, I can type 'unity --reset' and then after a dozen lines the script hangs. Unity: What is there not to like?
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    - igouy 15y ago
      In a terminal window ccsm and check that the Ubuntu Unity plugin is enabled.

by fader 15y ago

igouy 15y ago

> 1. If the windows are maximized Please Unity stop maximizing the window! > 2. Drag a window to the left or right side of the screen. It will resize and snap to the edge of the window taking up 50% of the display. (Great for having two windows side-by-side.) How do I stop Unity from resizing and snapping the window? I spend more effort and suffer more distraction undoing Unity's "helpfulness" than I ever spent on window management before, on any OS.

sp332 15y ago
You'll have to install the package compizconfig-settings-manager, and disable the "Grid" plugin.
- igouy 15y ago
  Thanks. I've just installed compizconfig-settings-manager and now - before I had a chance to disable the "Grid" plugin kkkrrsh - the launcher won't appear, there's no menu bar at the top of the screen, and I kind of hope the desktop will magically fix itself when I reboot the machine. Edit: Nope, the desktop is toast. So now I have to figure out how to open a terminal window, and how to reset Unity, before I can even try to stop Unity being a control-freak. I feel so lucky to have a Windows partition that might allow me to be productive in the meantime! Edit2: Better and better - I can open a terminal window, I can type 'unity --reset' and then after a dozen lines the script hangs. Unity: What is there not to like?
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  - igouy 15y ago
    In a terminal window ccsm and check that the Ubuntu Unity plugin is enabled.