Re: gruler

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 11/21/05, Kalle Vahlman <kalle vahlman gmail com> wrote:
> 2005/11/21, Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>:
> > >From the whackarse bug reports we get at work:
> >
> > It can be very hard to line a series of windows up vertically, with the
> > top and bottom edges in line. This is a thing that people viewing
> > seismic data apparently want to do quite often.
>
> While it doesn't apply to resizing (why not?), moving windows with the
> shift key pressed does snap to window edges etc with Metacity.

Someone doesn't have an up-to-date system.  ;-)  That was a bug fixed
in metacity-2.13.2, namely bug 86644.

> It's really handy, even if it's only a part of the solution.
>
> If there's no particluar reason why it doesn't work with resize, I'd
> like to see it enabled there too.

It has been.  Please update to head.  Note that edge-resistance (as
opposed to auto-snapping) for normal moves and resizes has also been
added.

Cheers,
Elijah