Duncan posted on Mon, 06 May 2013 04:52:34 +0000 as excerpted: > I will often deliberately move the mouse to the screen I want the window > on then launch, if launching with hotkeys, or will click a link in my > feed or list reader then immediately move the mouse to the screen where > I want the browser window to appear, hoping I can move fast enough to > get there before the window appears. Since firefox takes a bit to > start, I usually can, if no other firefox windows are open at the time. > Otherwise the window appears too fast, beating my pointer move, and I > have to drag the window to the screen I intended it to appear on. > > After writing that, come to think of it, perhaps having hotkeys to move > the window to the appropriate screen isn't such a bad idea. Dragging > the window isn't terrible when I lose the pointer move race, but just > hitting a hotkey would be nice, too. > > I just have to figure out an appropriate hotkey, since the usual > suspects are already reserved for desktop switching, etc... But maybe > I'll try it later and see what I can come up with... Watch this space. > =:^)
OK, found meta-ctrl-F1 and meta-ctrl-F2 were free, and assigned them under kcontrol, common appearance and behavior, shortcuts and gestures, global keyboard shortcuts, kde component kwin (dropdown), window to screen 0 and window to screen 1, respectively. It works as expected. Hitting those keys now moves the active window to the appropriate xinerama/randr screen. =:^) (FWIW, I'm considering installing a third monitor, smaller but the same resolution as my other two, as my system status display. That'd get it off my top monitor, giving me two full-screen displays, 42-inch full-HD 1920x1080, for work, instead of using the top 170 pixels of the top one for system status. The third monitor is one of the 21" full-HD monitors I was using before I upgraded to the 42-inch monitors, and AFAIK, all I need to do it is a display-port-to-DVI cable, since the third output on my graphics card is display-port, and the monitor is DVI. But that's not too expensive. And I already have the monitor and wall-mounting hardware for it. Then I'd have a meta-ctrl-F3 as well, tho I'd probably seldom use one of the hotkey combos as the third monitor would be dedicated to system status graphing and logs, the systray/notifier, etc. Otherwise I'd have probably used meta-ctrl-F11/F12.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
