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BrJPedro

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About Window Snapping feature

A follow-up about my darn-old question https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2235

Window Snap has been a feature on Trinity for a while now, but AFAIK it just snap the window to borders/other windows without resizing it, just moves the current window.

Is there a way to make it work like in another DE, like, moving for the right border -> resize the window to fill half of screen, etc?

Maybe a Twin script somehow? or using Compiz maybe (i have used Compiz in the past, but I don't remember if it was on Q4OS or XFCE)

Last edited by BrJPedro (2025-06-02 12:40)

q4osteam

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Re: About Window Snapping feature

... it just snap the window to borders/other windows without resizing it, just moves the current window.

That is not correct, windows tiling works on Trinity/Q4OS out of the box.

BrJPedro

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Re: About Window Snapping feature

I tested it now, it really works
But, I use two monitors and when I try to snap, it just moves to the next monitor

While on Plasma for instance, it works - if I drag the window to the border without moving to the other monitor, it just tiles the window

BrJPedro

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Re: About Window Snapping feature

Moving to the top and to the outer monitor border, it works as expected

But not on the two-monitor inner borders, between them

BrJPedro

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Re: About Window Snapping feature

Photo:

In this situation, I wanted to tile the window, but it just moves the window to the other monitor

I've used another DE (I don't remember if it was Plasma, Gnome. I don't think it was XFCE) that handled this as I want

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I'm asking this because I don't use "two monitor setup" since 2023. But I just started now, last week, and i'm adapting my setup.

q4osteam

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Re: About Window Snapping feature

Yes, we can confirm such behavior on multi screen configuration, however it is subject of change for the next Trinity release.

BrJPedro

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Re: About Window Snapping feature

Thank you. I thought that it could be setup somehow for now, on Twin maybe. But it is fine.

Meanwhile, is there a way to snap the window using keyboard shortcut? A shortcut to tile the window to the left or to the right of screen?

Last edited by BrJPedro (2025-06-02 15:45)

q4osteam

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Re: About Window Snapping feature

Meanwhile, is there a way to snap the window using keyboard shortcut? A shortcut to tile the window to the left or to the right of screen?

As far as we know it's not possible at the moment, however it will be enabled within the Trinity update.It will also be possible to control windows tiling from the command line using dcop calls.