Greetings, I have looked in the settings but I can’t find a setting where I can center the active window with a shortcut or to open new windows centered. Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance!

Cooked something: https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/experimental/tree/master/center_all . Setting up is described in the README, but please let me know if you need any help setting it up.

I did discover that GUI option. This is handy in the meantime, but so far, if I use it to center one window, it also resizes the window to the size of the grid. I just want my window to be in the middle of the screen, with whatever size that window currently is. Is that also a possibility or did I…

Ah, I see, you’d like it to keep sized as it is, but centered?

Yes, exactly! If it can be done automatically even better.

Ah, I see. I’ll see if I can fix something, throw it in experimental.

You would help me out so much if you could. I would do it myself if I could but I am rather new to Linux and when I finally made a script myself on the Windows side with AutoHotkey, it was both awesome and a bit sad since that centering was a reason for me to stick with Windows. I know it can be do…

[EpsilonVector] Center a window via command line command-line, window asked by EpsilonVector on 04:05PM - 14 Feb 12 UTC You could wrap one of those answers to centre the active window via a keyboard shortcut

I think the mutter answer here should enable new Windows to open centred I.e. not the accepted answer since that is for the Unity desktop [Frantumn] Open windows in center of screen window, window-management asked by Frantumn on 03:13PM - 25 May 12 UTC …

Thanks for the suggestions. I found both by Google in the past. The first one I even tried but I could not get the command to do anything. The other, as you said, isn’t applicable anymore with the latest Ubuntu. I hope vlijm can whip something up.

What is this experimental btw? Is that something we can access as well if we wanted to have something newer?

In experimental, we push all kinds of -experimental- stuff. Some of it is kind of ready to use, like the one I mentioned, the “headless” window switcher and the wallpaper switcher/timer, other stuff is purely for ourselves to, well, do some experimenting preparations for development. We’d probably n…

Is there a way to center the active window? I can't seem to find a keyboard shortcut that does this!

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You could wrap one of those answers to centre the active window via a keyboard shortcut

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Is there a way to center the active window? I can't seem to find a keyboard shortcut that does this!

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