Why the changes to the 18.04 desktop?

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Mon Oct 19 15:17:23 UTC 2020


Hi Liam,

On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 17:08 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:

> The keystroke that opens the window-control menu is Alt+the space
> bar.
> Try it. Even if the button is hidden, as it is by default on GNOME 3
> and Unity, it should still work. (But not in non-MS-Windows-like WMs
> such as twm or i3.)
> 
> Then a menu appears. The contents vary according to WM but the first
> few should include:
> • "Restore" or "Unmaximize"
> • Close
> • Resize
> • Minimize
> • Move
> Often then there is a section divider, followed by things like moving
> to other virtual desktops, rolling up or unrolling (features borrowed
> from Classic MacOS 8/9) and so on.

Thanks for this. You've just provided a work around for an annoying
problem I've got! When I put Chrome into full screen it jumps to the
other monitor. Now you've given me a way to get it to move back again
and stay full screen!

Regards,
Tony.
-- 
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