Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Bring some sanity to Windows window management

I am fed up with all the precision mouse-work required to simply move and resize windows under most non-X11 window managers. (Read: Windows and Mac). On most X11 window managers, you can hold down the "alt" key and click and drag on the window. Left clicking moves the window, and right clicking resizes the window. So much more humane than trying to grab those edges!

In the midst of frustration today at too-tiny default windows, I hunted around for a solution. Behold: KDE-SizerXP.

I myself never associated this behavior with KDE specifically, but I'm not one to complain!

(Mac users, take a look at Window Dragon. I haven't used it, but I believe it solves the same problem).