Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall at gmail.com> 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.

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