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#2341: Windows did have a cool feature, once upon a time...
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Written by daretoeatapeach the 1 Mar 08 at 23:30.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
Remember back in the day on Windows 3.1 how you could, at the click of a button, have all open windows the same size on the screen? Why did they drop that? Everyone has at one point had two windows open that they wanted to see at the same time and had to carefully drag them to the appropriate size to see both. I don't see this as a high priority but it would be cool if there were some "auto arrange" options for existing frames that could be accessed with the right-click menu. It would save a lot of time.
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Nonexistent wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 23:54
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I guess compiz's features much enough covers such things.
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cheesehead wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 01:10
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The feature is still there in Windows. I never used it then, I never use it now.
Dig enough into the window managers and you'll find a way to do it in Linux.
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kasimir wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 01:22
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My friend, you will love the ion window manager. Try it out :)
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UBfusion wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 01:50
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I suspect the main reason you did this back then was to simulate a dual-pane file manager. Thank god norton commander in the old days and total commander in windows have their counterpart in Ubuntu as mc (midnight commander) and konqueror to offer this indispensable functionality!
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Primož Papič wrote on the 20 May 08 at 22:05
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Compiz Fusion Maximuze.
0 from me it already exists.
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Zero3 wrote on the 25 May 08 at 22:19
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I believe this feature usually is called "Arrange windows". In Windows, this feature is still available by right-clicking on a window in the task bar while another is active.
I miss this feature in Ubuntu as well! I often have a document open in the left side of the screen and an Wikipedia article on the right. This is pretty much as mess to do manually.
I'd argue for similar right-click commands in Ubuntu with at least the following features available with a combination of at least up to 3 windows:
- Align windows vertically
- Align windows horizontally
- Align windows in a square (if only 2 windows, not available, if window number does not match a given grid size, leave the last quarter of the screen empty(unused)
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