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yahbluez

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Registered: 2019-11-13

Posts: 2

shortcut to move a windows from one screen to an other

There are a lot commands to move a window from one workspace to an other

but

how do i move a window on one workspace from one screen to an other screen?

Today with USBC even a notebook may have more than one screen.

Moving with Alt-F7 is slow.

Is there any solution to do that?

best regards
fridolin

alcornoqui

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Registered: 2014-07-28

Posts: 832

Re: shortcut to move a windows from one screen to an other

Not natively AFAIK, but check this thread, where there's a reference to a script (which since moved here).

Good luck, and welcome btw!

Pizio

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From: Italy

Registered: 2017-03-30

Posts: 39

Re: shortcut to move a windows from one screen to an other

Sorry...I have made a big mistake...I was wrong to post here. I have deleted the post!
Sorry again!

Last edited by Pizio (2019-11-13 22:45:54)

alcornoqui

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Registered: 2014-07-28

Posts: 832

Re: shortcut to move a windows from one screen to an other

Sorry...I have made a big mistake...I was wrong to post here. I have deleted the post!
Sorry again!

Fine, no worries!

Abel Salgado Romero

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Registered: 2020-04-19

Posts: 1

Re: shortcut to move a windows from one screen to an other

I am struggling with the same issue and I have a few questions.
One is if this will ever be a native feature given how multi screen setups are common and this is a thing implemented on other DE like gnome or hell, Windows.

The other is related to how to work arround, I am hoping for some dev help here. Given the scripts and tools references here and in other places don't work properly*, I decided to write my own (https://github.com/abelsromero/nawm). Mostly based on cdootool I could manage some promising results but it does not work when the app is in "Mazimized" (using the "Maximize window" shortcut). In that case, the ''XMoveResizeWindow" method does nothing and reports no error. Is there some special property of maximized windows, one need to disable or adjust?
Also, is there a xfce lib I could use to detect when the window is in that state and tiled?

* don't respect position or size, or don't work in some scenarios, or create flikering

Last edited by Abel Salgado Romero (2020-04-19 16:13:12)