Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

2008-08-22 Thread Dylan McCall
I recently noticed a really awesome feature in Matchbox. When it is set to have windows in free mode (rather than fixed), one can drag those windows from /anywhere/. As long as the widget being dragged does not handle the necessary click events itself (eg: Is a button, text box, scroll bar, etc),

Re: Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

2008-08-22 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Dylan McCall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently noticed a really awesome feature in Matchbox. When it is set to have windows in free mode (rather than fixed), one can drag those windows from /anywhere/. As long as the widget being dragged does not handle the

Re: Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

2008-08-22 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dylan McCall wrote on 22/08/08 17:12: I recently noticed a really awesome feature in Matchbox. When it is set to have windows in free mode (rather than fixed), one can drag those windows from /anywhere/. As long as the widget being dragged does

Re: Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

2008-08-22 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dylan McCall wrote on 22/08/08 17:12: I recently noticed a really awesome feature in Matchbox. When it is set to have windows in free mode (rather than fixed), one can

Re: Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

2008-08-22 Thread Dylan McCall
Brushed metal windows were Carbon, I think. I'm also pretty sure what you're saying of Cocoa is not true though. Just got a Mac user nearby to demonstrate it, actually. You have to click in the titlebar to move the window. Not having Alt-Click-and-move-from-anywhere is one of my big

Re: Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

2008-08-22 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 22.08.2008 um 19:16 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: You have to click in the titlebar to move the window. Not having Alt-Click-and-move-from-anywhere is one of my big complaints about Apple's window manager. In Mac OS X, drag-from-anywhere is a feature not of the window manager, but

Re: Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

2008-08-22 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Markus Hitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 22.08.2008 um 19:16 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: You have to click in the titlebar to move the window. Not having Alt-Click-and-move-from-anywhere is one of my big complaints about Apple's window manager. In Mac OS X,

Re: Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

2008-08-22 Thread Dylan McCall
Woohoo! I (sort of) figured it out and created a branch implementing this change on Launchpad. So far it's more a proof of concept than anything else. The branch is here: code.launchpad.net/~dylanmccall/metacity/drag-from-anywhere To test this, you will need to run ./src/metacity --replace after

Re: Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

2008-08-22 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dylan McCall wrote on 22/08/08 20:12: Woohoo! I (sort of) figured it out and created a branch implementing this change on Launchpad. So far it's more a proof of concept than anything else. ... Wow, that was quick. :-) ... Works beautifully for