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now if I understand right gnome does not support a hotkey or option to move a window to another monitor by default (eg. after having been installed with
pacman -S gnome
)
so I think the solution is to use an alternate window manager (I think the default is metacity) so my question is which window manager should I use that has this feature (criteria are relatively lightweight, stable and easily set up)? also can anyone point me to instructions on how to install a non-standard window manager with a desktop environment?
thanks in advance and sorry for the newbie question.
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I don't use gnome, but if you extend the desktop, don't you just have to move the window out of the view of the one screen to the other?
I'm using i3, a tiling window manager. it's very lightweight and easy to setup. just install the whole group "i3" together with the package "dmenu", edit ~/.xinitrc to run "exec i3" and start it using the startx command
you can use the arander to configure how the screens are aranged.
in i3 you can move a whole "desktop" to another screen, or just move programms to other "desktops", just read the manual on their website
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thanks, moving the window to another screen isn't the problem, it's using a hotkey to do it that's the problem, I have a workflow where I like to use the mouse as little as possible. (I edited original post to reflect this)
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is there anyone else that can offer a solution? or simonsmiley, do you know any gnome users you think can help me out? thanks for the help anyway
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If you like to use the mouse as little as possible go for a tiling window manager. All of them do this. And don't ask for instructions, that's what we have a wiki for.
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A tiling window manager, has anyone got any suggestions/recommendations?
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … w_Managers
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@ewaller thanks, has anyone got any suggestions for a floating window manager where I can move a window to another screen with a hotkey? just would like to try both and make a proper decision. btw, was thinking compiz was the way to go if anyone has any suggestions about that.
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From what I looked up, i3 is a hybrid WM and you can turn windows into floating windows.
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brilliant, thanks everyone.
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If you like to stick with gnome, use the shell extension Put Windows.
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Brilliant, thanks. Easy to use and sensible defaults.
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Super + Shift + Left and Super + Shift + Right on recent Gnome moves the active window a display to the left/right.
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Thanks for sharing that information, but please note that this is a two year old topic which is marked as solved. Please don't "necrobump".
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … bumping.22
Closing.
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