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This is why I always use alt+drag to move windows around on my Linux system. I can't really live without. A few years ago I moved back to Windows for some time
by Morgawr 12y ago
This is why I always use alt+drag to move windows around on my Linux system. I can't really live without.
A few years ago I moved back to Windows for some time and missed that behaviour that much that I ended up writing a small program in C++ that hooks into the windows API and injects that behavior. Never felt better in my life using windows (it also does other stuff like allow alt+right-drag to resize and the option to remove all windows borders).
Here's the program in case anybody is interested but keep in mind it can have a few bugs and I stopped using/working on it because I don't use Windows anymore. Not sure how well (if anything) it works on Windows 8+.
https://github.com/Morgawr/EmptyWM https://github.com/Morgawr/EmptyWM
- stuaxo 12y agoaltdrag for windows is one of the first things I install, which only does that. https://code.google.com/p/altdrag/ https://code.google.com/p/altdrag/ I also use true X mouse sometimes for the focus.
- NickPollard 12y agoThanks! I've been missing this functionality on Windows for so long, didn't realise there were addins to fix it.
- qu4z-2 12y agoAltDrag is fantastic. It's the first thing I install on any windows computer I'm on. As an added bonus it supports toggling "Always on Top" status of arbitrary windows.
- imiric 12y agoIt's also trivial to implement in AutoHotkey [1], which also adds the resize behavior, plus minimize/maximize/close. Don't use Windows without it. [1] http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/EasyWindowDrag_(KDE).htm http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/scripts/EasyWindowDrag_(KDE)....
- qu4z-2 12y agoFor completeness: AltDrag also supports resize, maximise, and always on top. I believe it has minimize as well, but I don't use that shortcut so I'm not sure.