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Seemingly missing keyboard shortcuts; Can I create them myself?

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1863 / 3 Years ago, thu, may 27, 2021, 2:39:55

I've noticed that Ctrl+Alt+Numpad moves a window around to fill bits of the screen, but it seems to be missing three shortcuts: Ctrl+Alt+Num4 to fill the left, Ctrl+Alt+Num6 to fill the right, and some sort of keyboard shortcut to move a window from one monitor to the other (like Super+Shift+Right or Super+Shift+Left in Windows 7). Can I somehow make these three keyboard shortcuts work?

Edit: Found out Ctrl+Super+Left and Ctrl+Super+Right to fill the left and right halves of the screen, but still no way to move a window between monitors.

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answered 3 Years ago gerrin · Accepted Answer

It sounds like you want to use the compiz config settings tool. You can install it with

sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager

By typing that command in a terminal. You can then launch the application in unity; just start typing the word comiz and you'll see it.

There's lots of fun options to play around with in here. The one that you probably want to look at is the grid tool. Just remember if you manage to damage something and cause unity to stop working, typing

unity --reset

In a terminal and this will reset the profile to default and revert your changes.