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I have two open programs, but I want to view both of them at the same time. Dragging and adjusting them manually takes time, and I might have to do this every day. Is there any shortcut for doing this in Ubuntu?

I'm thinking something like this:

Screenshot showing two windows side-by-side

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Ctrl + Alt +Numpad left / Ctrl + Alt +Numpad right. must be here somewhere. – Jacob Vlijm Feb 17 '15 at 9:09
    
...And Ctrl + Alt +Numpad up / Ctrl + Alt +Numpad down for upper/lower half. – Jacob Vlijm Feb 17 '15 at 9:19
    
Woa, that's a nice screenshot of an ancient Google on an ancient operating system :) – Ray Koopa Feb 17 '15 at 12:26
    
You used the wrong screenshot. Windows XP (in the screenshot, it has the Green theme applied) doesn't have such feature (natively). It was introduced in Windows Vista. – Ismael Miguel Feb 17 '15 at 16:36
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Please don't spam edit like that. – Tim Oct 24 '15 at 21:13
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To set a window occupying the left half of the screen use this shortcut:

Ctrl + Super + ←

For the right half:

Ctrl + Super + →

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Super? What key is that? – Ismael Miguel Feb 17 '15 at 16:34
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Super is the "windows key" – Gremlin Feb 17 '15 at 17:14
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For those wondering why @IsmaelMiguel used super: not all keyboards are alike. Many are agnostic to the operating system that it uses. Many vendors,however prefix the super key with the dominant operating system that is bundled with a desktop package. Dell keyboards are labeled with Windows. Apple's equivalent label is the command key. In many ways, I wish more keyboards where agnostic to the OS. WASD keyboards do this and many others. – KLVTZ Feb 17 '15 at 20:46
    
@KLVTZ Thank you for explaining. This should be addressed in the answer. – Ismael Miguel Feb 17 '15 at 21:39
    
@IsmaelMiguel en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_key_(keyboard_button) – Tim Oct 24 '15 at 21:14
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You can also just drag the window all the way to the left or right edge of the screen, it will show an animation that highlights the new dimension and then just release it.

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OP mentioned that is not what he wants to do. – Jacob Vlijm Feb 17 '15 at 9:35
    
Oh, read over that bit for some reason.. sorry! – Gladen Feb 17 '15 at 9:36
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Happens to me all the time :) – Jacob Vlijm Feb 17 '15 at 9:36
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Although he talks about "Dragging and adjusting them manually takes time".. which implies that he tries to resize it to take the half of the screen manually.. – Gladen Feb 17 '15 at 9:37
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OP sounds like he is fiddling with window sizes manually (collapse from maximize, drag each window edge to line up with right of screen, middle of screen, top of screen, bottom of screen...). Gladen's answer sounds a lot more like Windows 7's aero snap, which is basically "drag title bar to edge of screen and it fills half the screen for you", which takes like a second to do. – evilspoons Feb 17 '15 at 16:30

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