Gnome3 - Change window drag shortcut

Question

Gnome defaults to using Alt+LeftMouse dragging for moving windows around - I hate this feature and it breaks some apps I use. In Gnome2 you could change the modifier key in one of the settings dialogs, but I can't find the corresponding one in Gnome3, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks, Cam

Answer 1

The GNOME Shell window manager, Mutter, is based on Metacity (GNOME 2) and uses the same settings. They are located in GConf at /apps/metacity.

Use gconf-editor or gconftool-2 to change the /apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier setting to your preferred modifier. For example, to choose the "Windows" key, I use:

gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier --type string "<Super>"

Changes should take effect immediately.