Hmm Looking at my post It should have read "ctl + alt + 6" on the numerical keypad. "5" just maximizes the window.
Glad you found it useful Mark! Sure beats manually resizing your windows when all you want to do is put two windows on the screen, each taking half the screen real estate. --Manny On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Mark Traceur <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a lot for the tip, Manny, I'm using it now and it works amazing! > > And for the record, I tried using W7. It didn't support my ethernet > card. I am now forced to use Vista for gaming and I hate myself for > trying to upgrade too soon. I didn't get to play with it much, but at > the very least, the graphical parts of it seemed pretty well-polished. > > (not as nice as KDE4, though!) > > --MarkTraceur > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: >> If anyone using window$ 7 thinks that window$ 7 or any other window$ >> compares to the functionality that comes with compiz, they are nuts. >> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Manny <[email protected]> wrote: >>> For those that have used W7 and like the way you can quickly resize a >>> window to full size, right half or left half. You can do the same >>> with Compiz. >>> >>> You just need to turn on the Grid module. Once you do that you can >>> use your numerical keypad to quickly change the position and resize >>> the window in a few key presses. >>> >>> For instance to move and resize the current window to the right half, >>> I just hit ctl + alt + 5 on my numerical keypad. It has much more >>> functionality than W7. I don't have a link as it was something that I >>> did a search for and read up at the bottom of a blog. Enjoy! >>> >>> --Manny >>> _______________________________________________ >>> LinuxUsers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to >> be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." >> -Roger Penrose >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
