[X2Go-Dev] Looking for keyboard shortcut to move a window in rootless mode on MS Windows

Stefan Baur newsgroups.mail2 at stefanbaur.de
Mon Sep 23 23:07:29 CEST 2013


Am 23.09.2013 22:50, schrieb Nable 80:
>> There's also no way of using any of the usual methods known from Linux (Alt+Mouse or any of the Gnome/KDE keyboard shortcuts).
> Idea of my message was that such ways _do_ exist.
> Try "g alt+mouse move ms windows"  [...]

Having to install an add-on tool doesn't qualify as "any of the usual 
methods", IMHO.

> I agree that this is a _workaround_ (as we still don't have the thing
> that's working out-of-the-box) and real solution would be to write and
> include such code in vcxsrv or implement some helper program (with
> this function) as a part of x2go distribution.

I am kind of surprised (in a negative way) and disappointed that there 
seems to be no native way of sending an equivalent of Alt+Spacebar to 
the Window. Because once you are able to *click* on the icon in the 
upper left corner of the window, you can go on just like with any 
regular Microsoft Windows window: Push ArrowDown until you're at the 
"Move" item, hit enter, move window with arrow keys, hit Enter again to 
position it there.
Makes me wonder if I'm just too stupid to find the proper key 
combination or if there's a bug blocking that Alt+Spacebar keycode 
(since after "emulating" that with a mouse click, it works "the windows 
way", so it's not like the entire functionality is missing).

-Stefan



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