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I would like to move windows with keyboard shorcuts. Even thought in KWin Keybord Shorcuts menu I see some global shorcuts like:
Move Down (Meta + Down), Move Left (Meta + Down),... Move Window Down (Meta + Shift + J), Move Window Left (Meta + Shift + H) ... But none of these seem to do anything. Do I have to turn 'moving by shorcuts' feature on? What do these actions do? What am I missing? Also what would be shorcuts to resize window and to center it into middle of the screen?
openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.2
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Those shortcuts are for moving the zoomed area when you have desktop zoom activated, i.e. press Meta+=.
Hm, I don't have those shortcuts here. The only vaguely similar option I see is "Move Window Down a Desktop" and so on. (I'm running in german here so I'm not 100% sure how they would be named in english) Those are not set by default here, but they are for moving the window to a different virtual desktop obviously.
You mean maximize it? There is the possibility to use a shortcut to maximize the activated window, but you have to assign one first by clicking on the entry in the shortcuts settings. And there are shortcuts for resizing/moving the activated window as well, but again you have to assign them first, they are not set by default. You can then switch to resize/move mode by pressing the key combination you set, and use the cursor keys for actually resizing/moving the window then. I don't see any possibility to assign a shortcut for centering a window though, if that's what you mean. |
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Both shortcut variants are relics from the interim tiling WM support (and would not have done what you likely wanted) - zooming meanwhile has a speaking name (move zoomed area) and we hopefully shipped a kconfupdate script for that
What would work is "pack [shrink] window", but is likely neither what you want.
This is likely the best answer to your question - shortcuts to move/resize windows directly this way have never existed. |
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