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

[Jack Swope]

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On May 22, 2014 5:22 PM, "Jeffrey S. Haemer" <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Matt,
>
> Thanks. That doesn't do same thing in Unity (not surprising, but worth a
> try).
>
> The most promising of the things I tried was Ctl-Alt-<Num (keypad)>, which
> does move the window around to a predictable spot on the monitor it's on,
> but doesn't move it between monitors.
>
> 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.
>
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Matt James <matuse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Davide Del Vento <
>> davide.del.vento at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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