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Is there a Unity / Compiz shortcut key to move a window to your other monitor (not workspace)? [duplicate]
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Quickly place a window to another screen using only the keyboard
Sort of like CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+Arrow but only to my other monitor, not to a completely separate workspace.
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Short key for moving windows between monitors? [duplicate]
Is there a short key to move a window between the different connected monitors?
In my setup I have 2 monitors in use. Usually I am on Unity, but I also use Cinnamon. Is there a way to move a window ...
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swapping windows between two screens with one shortcut key combo [duplicate]
I work on a laptop connected to an additional monitor. Sometimes I just want to move windows that I have on the laptop screen to the big screen, and windows from the big screen to a laptop. Is it ...
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Keyboard shortcut to move windows between monitors?
I remember there used to be a setting under Compiz that set a keyboard shortcut for moving applications between physical (but combined as a single xscreen) screens, similar to moving between logical ...
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Howto to move window to another monitor on the left/right using keyboard shortcut?
I have always used Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Left/Right to move windows from left to right monitors.
Installed Ubuntu 18.04 last week (fresh install) and it appears that this is not working anymore despite the ...
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Move windows to specific screens using the command line
This is similar to Quickly place a window to another screen using only the keyboard , but I want to be able to use the command line (so that all I need to do is to recall the command line from the ...
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Create keyboard shortcuts to move windows to different monitors without Compiz
I'm running Ubuntu MATE 16.04 and I love it right out of the box. The only thing I need on it is the ability to move my windows to different monitors using the keyboard.
I've been using CompizConfig ...
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Dual monitors on Unity, one above the other - how can I drag a window from top monitor to lower monitor (across central panel)?
I have two monitors attached to my Ubuntu desktop system. One is mounted above the second one (i.e. one up, one down). Unity draws the system panel across the top of each monitor - so the bottom ...
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Can I configure a keyboard shortcut to switch the content when using dual monitors?
I'm using Ubuntu with two monitors, is there any way to set up a keyboard shortcut that would switch the contents of both monitors? (i.e. move every window from the first monitor to the second and ...
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Quickly place a window to another screen using only the keyboard (Xubuntu)
I followed Quickly place a window to another screen using only the keyboard to be able to shift my windows through different screens but nothing seems to happen. Is there anything else necessary to ...
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