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How do I enable snap window to corner in Ubuntu 18.04? [duplicate]
I've just upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 where Unity Tweaks had this dialog:
(I would normally have the top and bottom "do nothing"'s set to "top" and "bottom" as well)
Working with both large monitors ...
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How can I add "Show desktop" to the GNOME dash or Ubuntu Dock?
I am migrating from Unity to GNOME. One item I am missing is a "Show desktop" button (aka "minimise all windows") in the dash. How can I add this functionality to the GNOME dash (or Ubuntu dock in ...
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How to set Nemo as the default file manager in Ubuntu?
I just installed Ubuntu and I want to replace nautilus with Nemo. I first installed Nemo by using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get ...
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Can Snap-Windows be set up for 4 windows instead of just 2?
The title might need some adjusting but what I am trying to say is that, when one drags a window to the left or right side of the screen, it resizes to fill that half of the screen. So if I drag 2 ...
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Just upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 and can't use compiz grid window resize commands?
I got used to splitting my application windows on monitor into 4 sides top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right with key combinations like Ctrl+Alt+Key3 and so on.
It no longer works with Ubuntu ...
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Is it possible to place windows with keyboard shortcuts in Gnome-Shell?
With Compiz in Unity, I could press Ctrl+Alt+6 to place a window on the right-half of the screen, Ctrl+Alt+4 to place it on the left half, Ctrl+Alt+7 to place it in the top left quarter of the screen, ...
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How do I restore the Unity 7 Ctrl-Alt-Numpad combination behaviour on Gnome 3?
By default, instead of doing something useful, the Ctrl-Alt-Numpad key combination in Gnome 3 shoves a window in the specified direction across the entire workspace. These shortcuts do not show in the ...
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How can I automatically resize a window to 1/4 of the screen and snap it to a corner in Ubuntu 22.04?
I wrote this popular answer for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04, but now it won't work on Ubuntu 22.04 due to Wayland.
https://github.com/negesti/gnome-shell-extensions-negesti#wayland--wnck:
Because of this ...
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Is it possible to control window positioning using keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu?
In Lubuntu, it is possible to control window positioning on the desktop using keyboard shortcuts, as follows:
Windows + ← - window occupies left half of the desktop
Windows + → - window occupies ...
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Is there a grid shell extension for gnome? like compizconfig
I want to be able minimize windows with hotkeys to top-left,top-right,bottom-left,bottom-right. I had this with unity but I can't find this on gnome. I need this to work with hotkeys.
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How do I view split on top/bottom/corners
I want to create a shortcut to pack the view of the current program on an area of my window.
It's like super+left shortcut, that shows as "split view on left" on keyborad->shortcut1 configuration, ...
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GNOME Shell Extension Put Windows stopped working
Presumably after an update to GNOME Shell, 'Put Windows' extension stopped working.
This was only discovered after trying to put a window into a corner (upper leftmost) of the screen using Super+7 (...
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Ubuntu 18 activate ctr+alt+num for window placement [closed]
It seems to be a recurring problem in ubuntu releases that the Ctrl+Alt+number for window placement gets deactivated
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How to remap default unity window placement shortcuts
Ubuntu 12
Why don&...
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Ubuntu numpad shortcuts
I am using Ubuntu 19.04 and I want to create shortcuts like Super+Num_7 to move the active window to top-left corner, Super+Num_4 to move the active window to left, etc, for all 9 numpad numbers.
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How to get quarter-window snapping for Ubunt18.04 Metacity
My Ubuntu 18.04.04 cannot install numerous applications that are designed to allow quarter-window snapping.
I'm running Gnome 3.28.2
I'm running Metacity on GNOME Flashback I think. My shell version ...