Feb 06
Crazy Shift-Drag
Ok, so I found another interesting little feature in Ubuntu by accident today. I was trying to drag a window across the room, and it would jump sporadically, moving only to the edge of another window. It was really weird, until I realized that my shift-key was stuck down. Apparently, if you hold down shift and drag a window, it’ll only move to the edges of other windows– cool for tiling a lot of programs on your screen.
February 6th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
With a title like “crazy shift-drag” I thought you were going to talk about street racing or something crazy like that. I was a bit confused.
February 7th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
A related discovery– shift-resize performs a similar operation. It’ll only resize to the edge of the screen or other windows. This, in my opinion, is more useful.