Window snap aka 11.04 in 10.04

[InTheNameOfDelicious]

Good time of the day fellow Ubuntu users. I'm wondering if there's any way to get the "window snap" feature in 10.04, i.e. so that windows resize to half-width-full-height when you touch the edge of the screen with the cursor while dragging a window (but not just when you do the latter)? It doesn't seem like that's a Unity specific feature in 11.04. I was messing with it earlier today and snap still worked in gnome when I installed it. Is there a separate package for snap I can install in 10.04?
Thank you.

[wilee-nilee]

Good time of the day fellow Ubuntu users. I'm wondering if there's any way to get the "window snap" feature in 10.04, i.e. so that windows resize to half-width-full-height when you touch the edge of the screen with the cursor while dragging a window (but not just when you do the latter)? It doesn't seem like that's a Unity specific feature in 11.04. I was messing with it earlier today and snap still worked in gnome when I installed it. Is there a separate package for snap I can install in 10.04?
Thank you.

Argh captain here yee be.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/11/g...nap-in-ubuntu/

[InTheNameOfDelicious]

Sorry, this doesn't earn you a peace of mein cake.
That's just a work around with ccsm. I tried it, and only the maximization part worked; the 1/2 width doesn't. Also, with this it would run the command on the active window every time I hold the cursor near the edge. What I'm wondering about is what they use in 11.04. That works even without ccsm installed. I thought that may be a stand alone program.

[yetiman64]

Sorry, this doesn't earn you a peace of mein cake.
That's just a work around with ccsm. I tried it, and only the maximization part worked; the 1/2 width doesn't. Also, with this it would run the command on the active window every time I hold the cursor near the edge. What I'm wondering about is what they use in 11.04. That works even without ccsm installed. I thought that may be a stand alone program.

Even without ccsm installed compiz itself is used in 11.04, ccsm is only a settings manager for compiz.

The grid plug-in is used in 11.04, you can enable it in 10.04 as well, but you are restricted to using the keypad controls only as there is no edges tab in 10.04.

From the same source as linked by wilee-nilee, I had to work on the commands, copying from the webpage apparently changes some of the symbols. Using the comments at the bottom of the page, I adjusted them to get the 2 commands working you are having problems with. I posted the commands in a code box --here-- , the code box should keep the symbols correct for you to compare them with. Actually I think I may have copied the commands from one of the commenters there, not the code posted at the top.

You are correct about the active window and the edge running the command when you don't mean to. Also if you get that working, try clicking the desktop to take the focus off any window then try out both the edges, you can get some mighty strange effects running with the desktop cube in use as well . Check out the attached screenshot for one of the weird effects it causes. The second screenshot is what it should be like without an edge activated.

Not a real good solution, but it seems to be that or keypad only use with the grid plugin for 10.04.

Edit: one extra idea I use with the link from wilee-nilee, is rather than using the edges and the top, I use the four corners instead (I needed an extra "edge" for the fourth command I added to the other UF post above for returning a maximized window to its previous state). Also I don't mention the edges in that link as the OP there only asked about key combinations. This may help a bit with the accidental edge activation you note.

[excetara2]

Assuming you have grid installed. Then just sudo apt-get install xautomation.

Put commands in ccsm commands section (preferred) or keyboard shortcuts like:

xte 'keydown Control_L' 'key Left' 'keyup Control_L'

For this I have window resize to left half in grid as key combination of ctrl + left.

xte is in xautomation package and allows automatic imitation of keypresses. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/...an1/xte.1.html

What I love about this is you can also still have dragging windows between workspaces still set.

Cheers

[excetara2]

If you don't have grid installed just install package:

compiz-fusion-plugins-extra