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Paul Woitaschek
Asked: 2012-02-12 16:55:01 +0800 CST

Automatically size windows using Xfce like in gnome

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I would like to drag my windows to the left or right side of the desktop and have them automatically resized like it works with Gnome or Windows 7. And to maximize them when dragging them to the top. How is that possible in Xfce?

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  1. Best Answer

    12.10 and above

    Tiling snap is built into the XFCE window manager, just drag your windows to the edges of the screen for the snap to occur.

    11.10 & 12.04

    If you want the "tiling-snap" of compiz you will need to get your coding-hands dirty because this was made available as a code-patch for these two ubuntu releases.

    According to this article - there is a patch available to enable windows tiling (aka windows snap) for the xfwm4 compositing manager.

    There is a great you-tube video showing this in action.

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    I have applied this patch and uploaded this to my PPA.

    to install

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/xfwm4
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xfwm4

    logout and login

    If don't want to install the modified xfce window manager, you will need to use compiz as your compositing manager to enable tiling:

    sudo apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager

    Then add compiz --replace ccp & to your autostart programs list.

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  2. To get window tiling to work in 12.10 you have to disable wrap_windows.

    Run the following in the terminal to enable tiling:

    xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/wrap_windows -s false

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  3. For an easier instalation of xfwm-tiling you can use this tutorial: Building xfwm4tiling. Maybe you will have to change a couple of version numbers but it worked wonderfully for me. If not, you will allways have the compiz route. If you have a 32bit system i still have the .deb on my comp but i strongly suggest you to build it yourself.

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