How do I limit the workspaces borders?

Question

Ubuntu 12.04 allows to move a window from a workspace to another using the mouse, but once in a while, that feature is very inconvenient because when the active window detaches from the top bar, it slips to the upper border and the top part of the window goes to the bottom workspace, which makes me change workspace in order grab it to the current workspace.

So basically I just need, under certain circumstances, to treat every workspace independently, with locked borders, instead of having a giant workspace divided into four sections.

Is there any way to accomplish this??

Answer 1

Well, I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 (still cannot stand Unity) but I think this will still work . . .

Are you aware that you can move the active window from one workspace to another by holding:

Ctrl + Alt + Shift + {cursor key for direction of desired workspace}

For instance, if you're in the left workspace and you want to move the current active window into the workspace on the right you just hold Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Right.

And you can jump your view from one workspace to another by holding

Ctrl + Alt + {cursor key for direction of desired workspace}