> make this take up half my screen space For what it's worth, in GNOME 3 and Unity (Ubuntu) moving a window to the left or right border will make that window h

> make this take up half my screen space For what it's worth, in GNOME 3 and Unity (Ubuntu) moving a window to the left or right border will make that window half of the screen. Same with top and bottom border. Moving a window to one of the corners resizes it to a quarter of the screen.