Re: Moving maximized windows between screens.

[Campbell Barton <ideasman42 gmail com>]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:21 PM, fuchur <flohtransporter gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:22:04 +0000
> wrote Campbell Barton <ideasman42 gmail com>:
>
>>Hi, I've been using sawfish for the past week and done and its been
>>very nice, however there is once annoyance with most WM's I've tried
>>before which is that its not easy to move a maximized window from one
>>screen to another with a 2 screen (Xinerama) setup.
>>
>>Openbox handles this fairly well since you can drag the maximized
>>window onto the next screen.
>>At the moment with sawfish you need to un-maximize, drag, re-maximize
>>which is pretty clunky, though most others do this too.
>>
>>Is there some way to assign a command to this?
>>something like "Move window to next screen (Xinerama)", or even a way
>>to chain the commands may do.
>>
>
> With this script you can move windows between heads.
>
> To activate the script copy the script to
> "~/.sawfish/lisp/Send-to-head.jl".
>
> Add to your "~/.sawfish/rc" or "~/.sawfish/sawfishrc":
> (require 'Send-to-head)
>
> Restart sawfish.
>
> Now you have 2 new keybindings "Send to next head" and "Send to
> previous head". You can bind the keybindings to keyboard or frame
> button.
>
> The script require sawfish >= 1.8.0
>
> --
> Regards,
> Fuchur
>
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Cheers, this works perfectly & for 2 screens its enough just to hook
up this to a single key which always sends to the other monitor.

Will this get into the next release of sawfish?

-- 
- Campbell