[lug] Is there a way move the active window under my cursor?

[Matt James]

On May 22, 2014 5:22 PM, "Jeffrey S. Haemer" <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> Matt,
>
> Thanks. That doesn't do same thing in Unity (not surprising, but worth a
try).
>
I kinda figured that bit thought I'd throw it out there anway.

<snip>
> Seems like the behavior I described would be a nice feature. I suppose I
could file a suggestion somewhere, see if any of the Unity contributors
like it, too, but for now I'll settle for dragging windows around.

I'll second. I was hoping someone would answer because I would use it. :-)

Matt

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> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Matt James <matuse at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> This isn't exactly what you asked for - but might work.  On my Fedora 19
box using Gnome 3, I can hold the "hot key" (Windows flag key) and then use
the arrow keys to quickly move windows from monitor to monitor and make
them left / right half of the screen or full screen, etc.  I find it pretty
quick.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Matt
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>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Davide Del Vento <
davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Stock means Unity?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Jeffrey S. Haemer <
jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> I can move my cursor into the active window with "Alt-F7." I want to
do the opposite: put a cursor somewhere on-screen, and then have the active
window jump to where I'm pointing, with the press of a key or two.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know an easy way to do that?
>>>>
>>>> (This is a work box: stock Ubuntu 14.04, on a Lenovo T420.)
>>>>
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