On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Dylan McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently noticed a really awesome feature in Matchbox. When it is set > to have windows in free mode (rather than fixed), one can drag those > windows from /anywhere/. As long as the widget being dragged does not > handle the necessary click events itself (eg: Is a button, text box, > scroll bar, etc), the event is handled by Matchbox and used to drag the > window. I found that very smooth and very smart. It is quite a unique > feature in the world of operating systems. > > Now for the question: Why is such awesome functionality currently only > found in a window manager intended for PDAs? > > Has there been discussion of implementing this feature for Metacity? It > would be particularly useful with the discussion of changing window > decorators, since this would keep moving windows on Metacity's end so we > never lose that functionality.
I don't know if you know this already but think it's insufficient, but if you hold down Alt you can click and drag a window from anywhere too. -- Mackenzie Morgan Linux User #432169 ACM Member #3445683 http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com <-my blog of Ubuntu stuff apt-get moo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
