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I use this approach:
Use ALT+TAB to switch to the off-screen application.
Press ALT-SPACE to bring up the system menu (you won't see it because it is off screen)
Press R to select the "Restore" menu choice to ensure the windows isn't is maximized (you can not move it if it is maximized)
Press ALT-SPACE again, then M to select the "Move" menu choice.
Press ...
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It's called the "Zoom Button". Defined by Apple as:
A control that toggles a window
between its standard state and its
user state.
From here.
What I take that as is basically that it's "Standard state" is the window size that the programmer hardcoded into the application. The "User state" is the size you've changed it to.
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I use Deskpins for this:
There is also PowerMenu if you prefer a context menu solution, which lets you set application priority and transparency from the context menu as well:
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What version of Windows are you using? Windows 7 comes with native support for exactly this.
Win+Shift+left: Move focussed window one monitor to the left
Win+Shift+right: Move focussed window one monitor to the right
EDIT: For XP you could try out UltraMon. Amongst other things it will allow you to define hotkeys for "Move window to next monitor" and ...
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Answer for Windows as explained on the old new thing:
In the taskbar, click the button for
the first window you want to position,
then hold the Ctrl key and right-click
the button for the second window.
Select Tile Vertically. Bingo, the two
windows are positioned side by side.
As mentioned in a comment below, you can also hold Ctrl while ...
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There are good solutions for both Mac and Windows that I know of:
Windows 7
This feature is built in, and it's called Aero Snap. You can use the following keyboard shortcuts to get the behavior you want:
Win + ← moves the current window to the left half of the screen.
Win + → moves the current window to the right half of the screen.
...
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Note: latest version of this article can be found here.
Switching to most frequently used applications is best done by keyboard shortcuts. Here is how I do it on each of the three major platforms.
GNU/Linux
I use GNOME as the desktop environment. Avoiding the use of mouse in areas where the same function can be carried out much faster using the keyboard ...
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Awesome window manager supports tiling as well as floating windows, so you have the choice. The default configuration will give you a minimalist feeling, but Awesome is so configurable that this can be changed. Full use of both mouse and keyboard is supported. Indeed, customizing it to satisfaction may take a long time, but then again at least it is ...
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This might be entirely off topic, so feel free to mod me down if MS Windows solutions is not what you want (the post does not explicitly say only Linux solutions). I wrote MaxTo, which partitions your screen into rectangles and changes all maximize events to put windows into those partitions. You can find it at maxto.net.
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X11 is a network protocol. It encodes things such as graphic primitives, images, pointer motion, and key presses.
Xorg is an X server. It implements X11 and provides an interface to keyboards, mice, and video cards.
GTK+ is a widget toolkit. It provides things such as buttons, scrollbars, edit boxes, etc.
Metacity and Compiz are window managers. They ...
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Not built in, but you can install 3rd party software.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26411/mercurymover
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/30591/right-zoom
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In document-based applications, the zoom button toggles between the user state and the optimum size for the content. Unfortunately, many applications, such as Firefox and even Safari, don't actually obey this rule.
From the OSXHIGuidelines:
Your application determines the minimum and maximum window size. Base these sizes on the resolution of the display ...
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Although not "offical" shortcuts Alt + Space accesses the system menu so:
Resize: Alt + Space + S
Move: Alt + Space + M
Minimize: Alt + Space + N
Maximize: Alt + Space + X
Restore: Alt + Space + R
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From a wikipedia article:
* WindowSizer - Tiles windows (shareware)
* WinSplit - Tiles windows using keyboard shortcuts (freeware)
* HashTWM - Tiling window manager with automatic tiling (MIT/X11)
* GridMove - Tiles and arranges windows on sophisticated layouts with hotkeys and multi-monitor support (freeware/donationware)
* bug.n - Dynamic, tiling window ...
7
You can use PowerMenu
In addition to "Always on Top" it also gives you "Transparency" and "Minimize To Tray"
Works with Win32 x86 (9x, ME, 2K XP, Vista, Win7)
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May be by following the advice in the "Bring Misplaced Off-Screen Windows Back to Your Desktop (Keyboard Trick)"
First make sure you’ve alt-tabbed to the window, or clicked on it once to bring it into focus. Then right-click on the taskbar and choose Move
At this point, you should notice that your cursor changes to the “Move” cursor, but you still ...
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Interesting question. Here's how I see it at first glance.
The usability of a window tiling practice is tied essentially two two things:
Current resolution
Type of applications opened
The higher the resolution the more such a feature may make sense. In today's world where resolutions of 1440x900 and higher are quickly gaining ground as mainstream, there ...
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A commercial shareware that I believe does what you ask is ZMover ($19.95):
ZMover helps you manage your desktop
layout by enabling you to set the
size, position and layering of
application windows. Instead of
wasting time rearranging windows
across your single or multiple monitor
display, you can configure ZMover to
do the job for you. ...
6
You won't get the answer to your question by searching. You won't even understand it even after asking here and reading the answers :-) You have to try it for yourself and see the bright sides. Of course, ending my answer here would keep its informational value at 0, so please let me share my findings:
a tiling wm doesn't imply mandatory usage of multiple ...
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To add to what Nikhil said:
Well, I think one of the main things that differentiates KDE and GNOME in particular is that GNOME is aimed at making things easy and straightforward, at least from their point of view (I say this because there have been many arguments amongst the developers from both camps as to what is 'easy and straightforward'). KDE on the ...
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Apple calls them Title Bar Buttons. Note that they're named Close, Minimize and Zoom. These are also the names assigned in the AppleScript accessibility API:
{"close button", "zoom button", "minimize button"}
It seems Microsoft does not give them a name (anymore?), as they're always listed like the following:
An application window includes elements ...
6
You really could have found this out yourself with only a tiny amount of initiative exercised. I only had to hit the "Up" hyperlink to the enclosing picture gallery to find that it's Claude Lecommandeur's ctwm. It's right there, named both in the screenshots themselves (in one of which .twmrc is being edited with gvim) and in the screenshot filenames ...
6
If you have a dark wallpaper and there are no windows behind the Firefox window, you can use AutoHotkey to make the window transparent when it loses focus, and opaque when it gains focus. I've come up with a simple script that should also be light on resources:
SetTitleMatchMode, RegEx
Firefox := "- Mozilla Firefox$"
while (true)
{
IfWinActive, % ...
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You can re-enable full-drag through the Control Panel:
(1) Open the Control Panel and click "System and Security".
(2) From within the System and Security section, click "System".
(3) From within System section, click "Advanced system settings".
(4) After the UAC prompt, click the "Settings" button in the Performance section of System Properties.
...
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On Windows 7, with the hidden application focused use Windows Key + Left or Right. You will need to press the arrow key several times.
For earlier versions as well as Windows 7, press Alt + Spacebar to open the hidden application's system menu, then the letter M to select Move, finally arrow key. This will lock the window to your mouse, now move your mouse ...
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To quickly solve this problem in the future, and to position applications over the dual-screen I can recommend Winsplit Revolution. It reduces solving this problem to simply pressing Ctrl-Alt and a num-pad key to put the window back exactly where you want it.
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The Linux port of fsn is called FSV. The site Nooface lists a bunch of 3D window managers, including fsv, with a variety of effects. Some link are to not just window managers. For example, what better way to kill a process?
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You can right-click the program's button on the taskbar, and then click "Move". You can now use the arrow-buttons on your keyboard to move the window where you can see it. Requires some fiddling, sometimes the windows get "stuck" on the monitors edges. You can also try using the mouse, but the keyboard is a bit more reliable if you can't see the window yet ...
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I realize this is an old thread, but I remember finding a more elaborate solution than those listed here.
$ (gui_app &> /dev/null &)
"&> /dev/null" redirects both stdout and stderr to the null device. The last ampersand makes the process run in the background. The parentheses around the command will cause your "gui_app" to run in a ...
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Personally, I prefer Size Up - it has a huge array of options for auto resizing with a single keypress including quarter screen, maximise and moving windows between monitors and even Spaces.
http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
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