[openbox] keybind to move windows to second monitor

Andrew Gallant jamslam at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 10:03:48 EDT 2012


> Mykola Dzham <i at levsha.org.ua> writes:
>
>> http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Actions#MoveResizeTo
>>     <keybind key="W-Left">
>>       <action name="MoveResizeTo">
>>         <monitor>1</monitor>
>>       </action>
>
> I tried this, but I cannot get it to work.
>
> Any idea how to get this setup working?

You can't. It is impossible to move a window from one X screen to another.

You must use TwinView to be able to move windows between monitors. (Or
if you have an updated nvidia driver, I hear they are supporting
xrandr now.)

- Andrew


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