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phil70
June 18th, 2015, 06:11 PM
I recently moved from Gnome desktop to Unity. Mostly like it, but still looking for a few things I got used to on Gnome but haven't found on Unity...

For both desktops, you can move/resize the current window with keyboard shortcuts Alt-F7/Alt-F8 (default), then each press of an arrow key moves/resizes by some small number of pixels.

The Gnome desktop had a couple modifiers that changed this behavior:

Ctrl-arrow would move/resize by one pixel at a time. Unity doesn't do this. (But a reasonable workaround is to use the keypad while in mousekey mode.)
Shift-arrow would move/resize the window until it "ran into something" -- abutted the edge of another window, or the edge of the desktop. Unity doesn't do this one either. Unless there is something comparable via some other keyboard shortcut? I really miss this one. I know about the tiling keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl-Alt-numkey), and these are useful in some circumstances, but it really would be nice to be able to make adjustments based on how much space is left over by other windows on the desktop.