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Chan Kim
Asked: 2021-05-08 00:48:48 +0800 CST

How to set Alt+mouse drag to move the window and Ctrl+mouse to resize the window unity (fresh install of 20.04)

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I fresh installed ubuntu 20.04 today and found the alt+mouse drag for move and ctrl+mouse drag for resize doesn't work. How can I turn the function on? (I don't know why ubuntu people didn't set it as default).
ADD : I found under setting-keyboard short - windows, the default window move is Alt+F7 and window resize is Alt+F8. I want to change it to Alt+mouse and Ctrl+mouse which is quicker. How can I change it? (I tried but didn't work)

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  1. Someone thought that changing the key to Super was a good idea to resolve some other conflicts for the design crowd. Frustrating. To restore the Gnome 2 defaults of Alt:

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier '<Alt>'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences resize-with-right-button true

    If you want to use Ctrl then you can substitute <Ctrl> above, but I think you might be mistaken, chances of conflicting key combinations involving that are even higher.

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