Comments on: Aero Snap effect for Metacity

By: Brian Szymanski

Brian Szymanski — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:00:04 +0000

I take that back – the problem in my case was a conflicting setting for the compose key. What worked for me was changing my compose key to printsc. Cheers.

By: Brian Szymanski

Brian Szymanski — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:52:18 +0000

For whatever reason, on my ubuntu 11.04 machine with a Dell keyboard I have to change for . xev identifies the right windows key correctly as Super_R, but the left windows key as Multi_key. Hope that helps someone.

By: Lexington Ali Shumba

Lexington Ali Shumba — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:11:52 +0000

Pretty nifty. to be a Little efficient, I copied & pasted the commands into an executable shell script. It most definitely helpful to use the functionality of scripts to get stuff happening

By: dom

dom — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:15:12 +0000

aweseome. i was searching a lot for this!

By: Robert Hollencamp

Robert Hollencamp — Wed, 04 May 2011 22:49:45 +0000

GNOME 3 (GNOME Shell in particular) has a more Aero Snap effect built in; you can drag windows to the top and to either side of the screen. I didn’t see anything about keyboard shortcuts for this functionality though

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Sun, 01 May 2011 21:05:45 +0000

Yes, this tip is very useful. Thanks a lot for it!
I did one small improvement: in the keybinding_commands I just call a small script in which the wmctrl command is running. This makes the command a bit more dynamic in case you change your screen resolution.

By: Lurchi

Lurchi — Sun, 01 May 2011 10:02:10 +0000

huh? Why didn’t I find this earlier? Thank you very much, sir, for this very useful commands!

By: badmash

badmash — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:30:39 +0000

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By: livelybrowsers

livelybrowsers — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:47:49 +0000

Thanks for good stuff

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