GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 322713
Window maximize horizontal / vertical toggle keyboard shortcuts
Last modified: 2005-11-29 03:21:02 UTC
It would be most helpfull if you could include the ability to toggle windows from their current size to maximized verticaly or horizontaly and back via keyboard shortcuts. I've been using this feature for several years with the sawfish wm. I'm a systems admin with several Unix stations to monitor and tweak. There are times when I have four desktops open with at least four terminals each. when chcking log files or generating reports. The text can get quite long, so I see the entire line. When I'm writing scripts I use a verticaly maxized window and use the \ continuation to keep the code readable. The less my hands have to leave the keyboard to reach for the mouse and drag windows sizes, the faster I can work. I have been rebuilding and re-installing sawfish since you changed. I've upgraded my hardware and OS to 64 bit. Since then I cannot seem to get sawfish to work properly. I don't want to switch window managers, I've become so accustomed to Gnome I don't like anything else I've tried. Thank You in advance, Mike Hahn
Good news: this was already added recently. :-) (Though it's only in the development releases, metacity >= 2.13.2). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 113601 ***
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Oh yea, Do you need testers for this. I've been running linux for about 10 years, Unix since '89. Just let me know the format you want to see bug reports, etc... in. I be more than happy to help. I'm runnig Mandriva 2006 x86_64, so I'd also need to know what else I'd need to download to compile it.
Well, uh, since we already have a bugzilla module it seems to make sense to use it for bug reports... Sorry, I couldn't resist. ;-) You should be able to build and run metacity with the gnome development libraries from your distro (e.g. gtk2-devel, glib-devel, or whatever Mandriva calls them), assuming your distro ships with gtk+>=2.6 (as seems reasonable) -- we don't have dependencies on anything very new like gtk+-2.9 or gconf-2.13 or anything like that. If you want, you could also compile all of the development versions of all Gnome programs using jhbuild. It'd be more work, but you'd get to test out a lot more stuff, which is always appreciated. Anyway, it's up to what you want.