[openbox] Feature wish: Snap windows to edges when moving them with the mouse

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Mikael Magnusson wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Kai Großjohann wrote:
>>
>>> Metacity has a nice feature where you can hold Shift while moving a
>>> window with the mouse, and the window will snap to edges (screen edges
>>> and other window edges).
>>>
>>> Openbox has the even nicer feature of MoveToEdge{North,South,East,West},
>>> but I think that the mouse-based feature that Metacity has would be a
>>> nice complement.
>>
>> Openbox already has window resistance, which lets you align windows
>> with eachother/the screen edge without holding any buttons down... Is
>> that not enough?
> Metacity has that too (though it could be an attraction rather than a
> resistance).  But the feature I'm talking about is different:
>
> Suppose you only have one window (that makes it easier to explain).
> Then this window will snap in four positions: each of the four corners.
> And to move a window into one of those positions, it is sufficient to
> position the mouse pointer in that quadrant of the screen.  (The feature
> also makes it impossible to move the window anywhere else but the four
> corners.  You have to use the normal move to do that.)
>
> Maybe I'm just clumsy with the mouse, but I appreciate it that I don't
> have to come within a couple of pixels of the screen edge, but rather it
> is enough to be in the right quadrant of the screen.

So you mean that when you hold Shift down and move, it _only_ snaps to 
edges and you can't move at all into the space in between?

--
Mikael Magnusson