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Idea
#6430: Gnome: Alt+Drag (move) equivalent for resizing windows.
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Written by fwolfste the 5 Apr 08 at 10:49.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
UPDATE
Thanks to the community. Feature was allready implemented (alt+mbr)!
I use Alt+Mousedrag a lot to move windows around in gnome.
I would like to have a feature like this for resizing as well.
Problem is that resizing with the mouse is sometimes a bit tricky (window might be bigger than screen, no task bar to access context menu with right click etc).
For example CTRL+Shift+Mousedrag (or Alt+Rightmousedrag) would work nicely i think, as ctrl and shift are really close to each other and i do not know any application that uses this combo.
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wacked_up wrote on the 5 Apr 08 at 13:13
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This is already possible with Alt + MiddleMouseButton
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Eldmannen wrote on the 5 Apr 08 at 16:17
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I find the move and resize function annoying as it interferes with games that use actions that you do by holding down ALT and pressing left click...
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bryhoyt wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 06:20
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Like wacked_up says, this is already possible with Alt+MiddleButton.
If you don't have a 3-button mouse, I recommend spend $20 and get one. It's worth the money. You'll find a scroll-wheel invaluable, too. If you can't do that, you can use a two-button mouse to pretend it's got a third button by clicking both buttons simultaneously.
Eldmannen, if you've got a windows keyboard (which I think is a great idea, for the extra keys), configure the windows & menu keys as window-manager keys. I.e. windowkey+click == move window, etc. Otherwise, configure yours CAPS LOCK instead of ALT, because most people don't ever use the CAPS LOCK key, in games or elsewhere.
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fwolfste wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 13:04
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Oh, thanks a lot!
I dont see a need to vote this idea down, but never mind, guys.
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Endolith wrote on the 21 May 08 at 04:47
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Doesn't work if you have a two-button trackpad on a laptop.
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wacked_up wrote on the 21 May 08 at 08:39
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Endolith: yes it does. All you need to have done is enabled emulate 3rd mouse button in xorg.conf (I think this is standardly on).
Then you can emulate the 3rd mouse button by pressing the left and right mouse buttons simultaneously.
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Endolith wrote on the 27 May 08 at 15:57
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...unless you can't press the left and right mouse buttons simultaneously. It needs to be remapped to Alt+Right button. Currently this goes to a context menu for the window, which is pretty useless when you can right-click the title bar to get the same thing. It should be Alt+Right click resize and Alt+Middle click context menu. I think this is how it is in KDE.
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