[plug] alt+mouse?

[Russell Steicke]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:09:39AM +0000, Mungo TheB wrote:
> I'm using gnome at the moment
> but in kde (and I think XFCE) I could hold the alt key press the mouse 
> button and move a window around (and partialy off screen)
> but in gnome it wont let me do it off the top screen (left right bottom 
> still works)
> 
> any ideas?

This is a window manager thing, and most gnome desktops now use
metacity as their window manager.  Here's some information on this
from the author:

  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-October/msg00281.html

Summary: losing the title bar is bad, so metacity doesn't let it
happen.




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Russell Steicke

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