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Questions tagged [snap-windows]

Questions about using the snap-window feature in Ubuntu.

Snap-window is a feature that is both present in Ubuntu and Windows 7 or later. This feature lets you to maximize the window by dragging it to the top of the screen, and making the window occupy 50% of the screen by dragging the window to the left or right edge of the screen.

In Windows 7 the feature is known as "Aero Snap".

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Can Snap-Windows be set up for 4 windows instead of just 2?

The title might need some adjusting but what I am trying to say is that, when one drags a window to the left or right side of the screen, it resizes to fill that half of the screen. So if I drag 2 windows, one to the left and one to the right, I can…
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Window snapping in Ubuntu MATE

I know how to enable window snapping in MATE Desktop, and it works. My problem is this. By default, Window A fills half the screen, and Window B fills half the screen, and you can't click and drag the edges of the window to resize without unsnapping…
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How can I prevent a window switcher from popping up when I drag a window to the edge of my display?

I like to snap my windows in GNOME to one side of the display or the other and to snap them into one of the corners of the display. I can do this by dragging the window using the mouse or by pressing the Super key with a direction key. I had done…
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GNOME 3.26 - Clicking one window brings another in the foreground (Ubuntu 17.10)

I'm on Ubuntu 17.10 with GNOME 3.26. Often I have windows tiled on the left and right side of the screen. A typical setup is to have a browser and text editor on the left, a PDF reader and terminal on the right. Something I've seen happen very…
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How to "snap-split" windows top and bottom?

One can share screenspace neatly in left and right portions by dragging the window until the cursor touches the left or right edge of the screen, and the window will automatically 'snap' to that half of the screen. How do I achieve this same…
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Xubuntu - Maximize window instead of top half on snap up

I want to maximize window instead of making it fill the top half of the screen on snap up. I can't find how to change it in settings.
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Windows that are snapped to one side freeze the computer when I drag them to make them full screen

When I have a window snapped to one side, and I drag it to the top of the screen to make it go full screen, it displays the area that it will be, stops at about 4/5s of the way there, and freezes the computer, forcing me to reboot to start using…
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Pair side-by-side windows in GNOME 3

This one is hard to explain. So basically, when I have two windows in GNOME 3 and make them side by side, so every window fits to one half of the screen, the behavior is not like I experienced it in the past and actually I miss it. The thing that is…
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Ubuntu snap-windows feature very slow in VirtualBox guest OS

I'm running Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 in VirtualBox 5.0.6. My host OS is Windows 10. I have Guest Additions installed, 3D acceleration enabled, and a number of other settings tweaked to maximize performance. I've been using this OS in an older version of…
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Ubuntu 22 split screen windows acting as if they are linked, how can I disable this?

I will describe the behavior/how I reproduce it, as I do not know if there is a name for this 'feature' or if it is intentional in the first place and search has failed me. Open window 1 and drag to left side of monitor to create half screen…
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How do I disable two half-screen windows from resizing left-right together?

I am using Ubuntu 18.04.5 I commonly snap two windows to the edges so that they both take up half a screen. Then I will take one of those windows and make it a little bigger, so that it overlaps the other window. I am not sure what this feature is…
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How do I make a second window snap to the opposite side of the screen?

I'm coming from Windows 10, although I've started (and accepted) the way Ubuntu works, their are still a few things that I love about Windows 10, the feature in question here is the way If I snap one windows to the extreme right side of display it…
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Set window size and position

With screens getting larger and/or wider (some with aspect ratios over 21:9 nowadays), the typical way to snap windows to half the screen on the left or right becomes pretty useless. That is, none really wants to have a text editor window that is…
Juan Antonio
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Create custom keybinding to snap window

There is a shortcut to snap window to either half of the screen Ctrl + Super + Left or Ctrl + Super + Right. My first question is how this shortcut is defined in the system? All default shortcuts are defined in gsettings but this is not there. Now…
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Windows+arrow equivalent on linux

In Windows if you are in a program and press Super+← for example the program would take up half of the left side of the screen. Extremely useful when wanting two programs to sit side by side. Super key being the special key in Linux then. And the ←…
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