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Bug 439400 - Shortcut key to move windows to next monitor (using a multi monitor setup)
Shortcut key to move windows to next monitor (using a multi monitor setup)
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.18.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks: randr-tracker
 
 
Reported: 2007-05-18 11:22 UTC by James Read
Modified: 2020-11-07 12:35 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement



Description James Read 2007-05-18 11:22:22 UTC
When using multi monitor, it would be nice if you could move windows around using shortcut keys such as ctrl + alt + down, or ctrl + alt + left.

For example, I have two screens, positioned as so:

 __________   __________
|          | |          |
| Screen 1 | | Screen 2 |
|__________| |__________|

When I have a window on screen 1, I can happily drag it to screen 2. 

But it would be nice ( and it would speed the use of the computer) if I had a shortcut key: ctrl + alt + right to move it instantly to screen 2 for me. This also works vice versa where I would use ctrl + alt + left to move a window from screen 2 to screen 1.

Many thanks for your consideration of this enhancement.
Comment 1 Sam Morris 2007-05-20 12:34:40 UTC
FYI, you can already move windows to other adjacent workspaces with ctrl+alt+shift+{left,right,up,down}. There isn't AFAIK a shortcut to move a window to a workspace by number, however.
Comment 2 James Read 2007-05-27 00:23:39 UTC
Agreed, although I don't know of any way to get a dual monitor setup to work with two workspaces (one on each monitor)
Comment 3 Rolf Leggewie 2008-12-17 08:22:38 UTC
The way I understand Sam, he is not looking at a setup with two workspaces, just plain multi-monitor.
Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2009-07-07 18:12:39 UTC
Fedora bug about the same idea: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=510084
Comment 5 André Klapper 2020-11-07 12:35:44 UTC
bugzilla.gnome.org is being replaced by gitlab.gnome.org. We are closing all
old feature requests in Bugzilla which have not seen updates for many years.

If you still use metacity and if you are still requesting this feature in a currently supported version of GNOME (currently that would be 3.38), then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/metacity/-/issues/

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