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Re:Rethinking Window Management in Gnome by akira2501 on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:44PM (#36913775)
> This is a standard X.org feature.

It is implemented entirely by the window manager. Perhaps other WMs have adopted it, but the X server does not do this. It's why you need a window _manager_.

> I don't want the 2nd feature you describe, but I have seen the option for it in some other WMs.

I can only recommend it. Being able to move and position your windows quickly while removing all window manager framing around your windows is powerful. I'd at least recommend you _try_ it before you publicly talk it down.

> This is not a dwm feature and nothing to do with dwm.

I'm not using dwm, as I've said I've modified it, because dwm is a tiling window manager. These are not tiling oriented features. I can precisely show you the code where this is being done and how it is configured within the event system that I've built for it.

Re:Rethinking Window Management in Gnome by lproven on Sunday July 30, 2023 @11:42AM (#36932384)
Yes, I am aware of all that.

But you were claiming alt-dragging this as a specific feature of your WM, whereas AFAIK all X11 WMs support this. I don't know of any that don't.

Why do you assume that I haven't tried alt resizing? I would have thought that expressing familiarity with the functionality you're discussing made it clear that I know how it works. When I say I don't want it, that's because I've tried it and don't use it.

I'm not dismissing it! If you like it, that's great. I tend to do large scale window management via keyboard shortcuts myself. It's why I dislike environments which don't support the standard keystrokes, such as KDE's kwin, and ones that remove it, such as GNOME.