jctweb
August 15th, 2009, 04:02 PM
I feel like I'm 90% "there" with what I'm trying to achieve... a little background first:
In WinXP (at the office), I run a program called "UltraMon" - very cool.
Anyway, one of the coolest features (to me, at least) is the ability for me to move windows between desktops. It adds a little icon in the window bar.
What's even cooler is that a maximized window moves to maximized status - in the resolution of the destination monitor! So moving a maximized firefox from my main screen running at 1680x1050 over to an attached LCD @ 1440x900 simply resizes the firefox window - and vice versa.
The other cool thing is ultramon adds an additional taskbar to the external monitor.
enough background...
Here's what I was able to to do:
The panel is located on the bottom - on the external monitor
I added the "window list" app to the pane
The window list only shows the open applications that are on that monitor! (way cool)
OK - all that I have left is to either
get a button in the window manager that moves the applications between the two monitors
figure out a keyboard shortcut that moves the maximized application between the two monitors
mouse gesture to move the active window?
I've been researching this for a couple of days and it doesn't look like there's "one solution to rule them all" - anyone else able to accomplish this?
My system:
Dell e1505
ATI x1400 video
OSS ATI Video drivers
Compiz running like a champ :)
Main screen: 1680x1050
External screen: Dell 19" LCD 1440x900
thanks for any help anyone can provide!
[Solved] See it here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8572940&postcount=3
In WinXP (at the office), I run a program called "UltraMon" - very cool.
Anyway, one of the coolest features (to me, at least) is the ability for me to move windows between desktops. It adds a little icon in the window bar.
What's even cooler is that a maximized window moves to maximized status - in the resolution of the destination monitor! So moving a maximized firefox from my main screen running at 1680x1050 over to an attached LCD @ 1440x900 simply resizes the firefox window - and vice versa.
The other cool thing is ultramon adds an additional taskbar to the external monitor.
enough background...
Here's what I was able to to do:
The panel is located on the bottom - on the external monitor
I added the "window list" app to the pane
The window list only shows the open applications that are on that monitor! (way cool)
OK - all that I have left is to either
get a button in the window manager that moves the applications between the two monitors
figure out a keyboard shortcut that moves the maximized application between the two monitors
mouse gesture to move the active window?
I've been researching this for a couple of days and it doesn't look like there's "one solution to rule them all" - anyone else able to accomplish this?
My system:
Dell e1505
ATI x1400 video
OSS ATI Video drivers
Compiz running like a champ :)
Main screen: 1680x1050
External screen: Dell 19" LCD 1440x900
thanks for any help anyone can provide!
[Solved] See it here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8572940&postcount=3