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  • (Score: 2) by ze on Monday October 05 2020, @07:55PM (4 children)

    by ze (8197) on Monday October 05 2020, @07:55PM (#1061063)

    I find that nothing much wants to use the super key, ya know the one with a window on it?, so I changed my window manager's alt-<whatever> keyboard and mouse bindings to super-<whatever>, which almost never conflict with any application bindings (unlike a lot of alt-<stuff>).
    Holding super and left/middle/right clicking does stuff like move, resize, and bring up a menu with the rest of the usual controls and like a dozen more that my wm supports and wouldn't be practical to put in a row of buttons anyway. I like to control stacking, so scroll sends windows to the back or front of the stack. Even better, I can do all these things from anywhere in the window, not just some designated pixels to hunt for... the menu pops up wherever you right click, resize just goes with the border or corner you middle click closest to, and the whole window is a drag anchor just by holding the window button down while left clicking it. Not just saving real estate, it's way easier, and windowing systems that make me pixel hunt are just obnoxious to me now.

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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday October 10 2020, @07:04PM (2 children)

    by RamiK (1813) on Saturday October 10 2020, @07:04PM (#1063023)

    That's the most common i3 keybinding. I believe the reason it's not the default is to accommodate laptop and (Apple) tenkeyless users that may lack a Start key and arrows.

    Regardless, I use it as well and as such have no window decorations.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday October 16 2020, @04:37PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday October 16 2020, @04:37PM (#1065463)

    Holding super and left/middle/right clicking does stuff like move, resize

    Probably my favorite feature of XFCE is Alt+LClick+drag to move, Alt+RClick+drag to resize windows. The former lets you move windows so their titlebar is off the screen and still have them be usable to save space; the latter solves the Linux DE problem that the window borders always seem to be 1 pixel wide and impossible to grab.

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