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Stop alt from trying to drag my window?

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I cannot find it in the keyboard settings at all.
In previous versions there was a tick box saying something along the lines of "use meta key instead of alt to drag windows?"

So how can I prevent alt trying to do this? :)

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answered 3 Years ago ligenvirt · Accepted Answer

Here's the way to do it without messing with the keyboard layout.

Note: You must know that this is a compiz feature, I recommend you not to change the keyboard layout settings.

Make sure you have gconf-editor. Also known as Configuration Editor. You can install it from the Software Center.

Run it and browse to /apps/compiz-1/plugins/move/screen0/options/.

Simply change initiate_button from <Alt>Button1 to <Super>Button1.

And you're done.

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NB: Maybe if you want the easier way to do it, mess with CCSM (compizconfig-settings-manager).