Quickly place a window to another screen using only the keyboard

Question

I know that using Alt-F7, I can use the keyboard to move the window around. I can also use the "Grid" plugin of Compiz to position quickly the window around my current monitor. The grid plugin doesn't seem work across monitor however.

What I need is a quicker way to move the current window to the other screen. In my current dual-monitor setup, I find myself needing to move the focus window to the other monitor as I focus on working on something else (and move it back afterward).

If I use XMonad (or other tiling managers), this would be rather easy. However, many applications that I use (Gnome Do, MATLAB, image viewers, custom apps that I write, ...) do not work well with a tiling manager.

So my question is: is there a shortcut key combination that moves the currently focused window to the other monitor (and back)?

Answer 1

1. Install CompizConfig Settings Manager

   apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager
   

2. Run it → Go to bottom (Window Management) → Go to "Put"

3. Enable the plugin
4. Configure shortcut for "Put to next Output"

If the plugin put doesn't appear in CCSM, install the compiz-plugins-extra package. (sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install compiz-plugins-extra)

Answer 2

Maybe this helps: Ubuntu: Move active window to another monitor