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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Crazy Shift-Drag

Ok, so I found another interesting little feature in Ubuntu by accident today. I was trying to drag a window across the room, and it would jump sporadically, moving only to the edge of another window. It was really weird, until I realized that my shift-key was stuck down. Apparently, if you hold down shift and drag a window, it'll only move to the edges of other windows-- cool for tiling a lot of programs on your screen.

2 comments:

Kyle Wegner said...

With a title like "crazy shift-drag" I thought you were going to talk about street racing or something crazy like that. I was a bit confused.

Glossy Grape said...

A related discovery-- shift-resize performs a similar operation. It'll only resize to the edge of the screen or other windows. This, in my opinion, is more useful.