![]() Make one of your applications active by clicking on the title bar.There is a better way: Windows Key + Arrow Key (left or right) Now they’re spending time moving, resizing and carefully positioning their application windows so that they are side by side. Plenty of people are using their work laptops at home right now. But now we’re stuck at home… do you still have dual monitors? Many people have dual monitors set up at work, and they put one application on the left monitor and the other on the right. Why? Because you’re typically looking at one document or email while working in another application. The Problem: Resizing windows on your desktop so that you can see two different applications side by side. Other than a peer group I’m in that is made up of fairly technical people, nobody knew about the shortcut. I’ve talked to a couple dozen people in the past week about this shortcut. Okay, click-bait title aside, I have a keyboard shortcut tip for you that you’re going to love. Obviously, you can modify the key combos if you don’t like these.This keyboard shortcut could change your life. Yes, that is a lot of shortcuts to learn. Mod4 + Alt + equal/plus: increase window size Mod4 + shift + left,right,up,down: decrease window size in corresponding direction | code Mod4 + left,right,up,down: increase window size in corresponding direction | code Mod4 + h: move the current window to the bottom half of the screenĪlt + left,right,up,down: move windows around ![]() Mod4 + f: move the current window to the top half of the screen Mod4 + j: move the current window to the bottom right of the screen Mod4 + d: move the current window to the bottom left of the screen Mod4 + k: move the current window to the top right of the screen Mod4 + s: move the current window to the top left of the screen Mod4 + l: move the current window to the right half of the screen Mod4 + a: move the current window to the left half of the screen Quasi (manual) tiling & quick snapping | codeĬtrl + Mod4 + v: tile the currently active and previously active windows verticallyĬtrl + Mod4 + h: tile the currently active and previously active windows horizontallyĬtrl + Mod4 + c: center the active window in full screen The code needs to be added in between the tags in Openbox’s rc.xml file. Of course, this is nothing new, and the code to quickly tile two windows vertically or horizontally isn’t from me (unfortunately I don’t remember where I got it), though I did improve it a bit, but here it is, for those who might want to try it. I’ve made quite a few simple keyboard shortcuts that move windows around, resizes them quickly, “snaps” them and I even got two shortcuts allowing to tile the currently active, and previously active window horizontally or vertically. ![]() You can’t really get true window tiling in Openbox, but you can get a fast workflow through custom keyboard shortcuts, and even some quasi manual tiling. With that said, I have gotten used to window tiling, and while for some of the work I do window tiling can be detrimental, for most everything else it’s actually beneficial. Setting up minimal installs with Openbox has thought me most of what I know about Linux and I’m glad that I still have a use for it. I’m not complaining, Openbox is the first standalone window manager I ever used. As much as I like dwm, for my work computer I need the full capabilities of a floating/stacking window manager, which is why I use Openbox on it. ![]()
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