Its not really an applet - but @vlijm has been very creative with a nice GUI method to move/tile windows.
Need some feedback - thoughts?
Demo here - https://youtu.be/X3GM_tMlOs0
How to install and setup is described here https://github.com/UbuntuBudgie/experimental/tree/master/window_shuffler
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This has now been added to 18.04. Just update as normal logout and login.
To activate window shuffled press meta-S I.e. Windows key and the S key.
Instructions will be given on first activation.
We would love to get your thoughts. @vlijm FYI
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Is it part of the default load?
Yes. Part of the default load
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UB Dev Jacob has added a new feature to Window Shuffler
Available sometime over the weekend to 18.04 testers
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And the final 18.04 release - full run through of the keyboard and GUI friendly capability
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Is this the only way to install it ? I am using 18.04
JF
Make sure you are fully up to date and ensure the package budgie-desktop-environment is installed. That is all you need .
LOL I will try to find if I have that installed (or please let me know how as I am not a Linux Guru yet) and as for the WIndow Shuffler I will try to follow the steps
JF
I’ll pass on it for now LOL
Will install it one day when there is a " Click here " way to install it or sudo apt install something from the CLI
I am not there yet
JF
Hello! Sorry to be late to the party, but what is this applet called? I can’t find it in my Ubuntu Budgie installation, and I have the budgie-desktop-env. installed.
just press Alt + S - its preinstalled
Ah… Never figured that! Thanks for the answer.
Another question. Can I somehow make the mouse show it? Eg. so if I drag on the left side of my screen (not only the top corner). I guess I’m looking for something more like GridMove on Windows 10. Where I can have a set och default places to drag my screen and it will make it that size.
More like this set-up (each number represent an area to drag the window and make it into a size)
It reminds me…
Ctrl + Alt + 1-9 ( from numeric pad ) where 7 is for top left corner, 8 for top half, 9 for top right, 6 for right half, 3 for right bottom, aso…
Dear Unity, you had everything needed but people did not want to see it.
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Indeed. Such capability is in 19.04 and later
Wait, those shortscuts are in 19.04 and forward? Because then in theory it should be possible I guess to make some kind of plugin to use those “grids”
Yes - that’s the shuffler_nogui part as described here in the README
So - sure it would be possible to create a wrapper around shuffler. I’ll leave that to an enterprising dev.
I’m struggling a bit with this plugin. I changed the shortcut and I tried keeping the original shortcut, but it fails to open a lot. It just does nothing until I have pressed the key more than ten times. Because I wanted to install gTile and try that (I also think it works a bit snappier), but I can’t install gnome shell extensions on Budgie. Or at least I haven’t figured out a way to do it. Anyone else have this problem?