John Pybus wrote:
Daniel Pope wrote:
Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 10:39:56AM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
IMNSHO, the "alt+drag to move window" wm shortcut is a very useless waste of what would otherwise be a very useful application shortcut. I'm curious how many users actually utilize that WM feature.
I have known people who have used and loved it. On less than polished WMs it is extremely useful in order to retrieve windows that have wanderered off the top of the screen.
On all X11 systems I use I remap the Alt-<something> keybindings of KDE to Super-<something>, the Super- modifier being mapped to the otherwise unused windows key. It's been a very long time since any common keyboard has come without the Windows key. To my mind it makes much more sense to use a key with a windows symbol for window management tasks than Alt-.
My preference would be to persuade developers of windows managers to use this key and leave Alt- free for productive use in applications.
I am completely with you. The first thing I do on all my linux boxes is change the window managers options so the windows (super) key is used instead of Alt because it makes sense. Windows moves windows.
I wonder if anyone has tried persuading the wm devs on this.
-Josh