Re: [Usability] Discoverable off-screen window dragging

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Elijah Newren wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2007 4:47 PM, Willie Walker <William Walker sun com> wrote:
> > On a related note, enhancing metacity's window movement behavior from
> > the keyboard would be really nice.  If you press Alt+F7 to move a
> > window, you can move it all over the screen using the arrow keys.  But,
> > if you press Alt+Space and select Move that way, you cannot push the
> > window vertically off the screen -- the window gets stuck on the title bar.
>
> Recoverability issue combined with the fact that the code doesn't
> differentiate how you opened that menu.  E.g. if you opened the window
> menu by clicking on the button in the upper left corner of the window,
> allowing movement of the titlebar off the screen would be really bad.
>
> Feel free to file a bug, the issue is basically just in tracking how
> the window menu was opened.

Ahh...understood.  It just seemed quirky to me, but I never really 
thought it was bad enough to be called a true bug.  If this is done by 
design, then I'm fine with it, especially since Alt+F7 gives me the 
behavior I need.

Thanks!

Will