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I think I am in the SSD camp. I absolutely hate the latest trend on MS Windows to fill the title bar with various widgets to the point where it can be hard to grab the window and move it. As with the current trend in US politics to stretch the rules well past any previous deformation, give a CSD an inch and it will eventually lead to ridiculously-adorned windows.
Am I the only one who drags windows by holding Super or nah?
I sometimes do that too, but as it's not a thing on Windows (which I'm forced to use at work), it's not my default habit.
My condolences. 💜
There is a third party tool called AltDrag that brings this exact thing to Windows. See if you can sneak it into your work machine somehow.
Brother, we used to be able to just use a single HID dirt basic operations like this.
I remember, but they invented better solutions 🙂
I just tried that now (didn't know it was a thing) and it's not a very satisfactory solution if I'm moving monitors. When I get it to where I want, I can't just double-click to max it again like I can dragging the title bar. Can't say I'll use that.
🤷♂️ I used it all the time back around twenty years ago when I still was using a stacking window manager with floating windows. It's all about practice I guess. For me it felt natural initially though.
Also holding down Super and dragging with right mouse button to resize is great.
The entire window is a much bigger click target than the title bar or the window borders (actually each quadrant would be the click target for resizing, but still a lot bigger). Fitts's Law in action.
I don't use it much now that I moved to tiling window manager many years ago, and now a scrolling window manager, because those are mostly controlled with use of keyboard shortcuts. But sometimes I still use this even now. 👍
I guess you could move it to another monitor then hit Super + Up to maximize, or a similar shortcut, if your window manager is a capable one. 😅
Closest I've come to any of that black magic hotkey fuckery is I've learned to hold shift when I drag to get it to snap to my tiling setup in KDE. Oh and Alt-tab for window switching and Meta-Tab for Activities.
I'm pretty much ready for Sway as you can tell.
😂 I take it you aren't used to working with computers much except maybe for gaming? Or what kind of computer background do you have, if you'd like to share? 🙂
Former IT and current farmer. I just did everything in the terminal.
Cool. How long ago did you make the switch to farming?
It'll be 11 years soon.
This is the biggest issue with CSDs aside from the wasted space coming from oversized buttons. Every developer's gonna put different, inconsistent things in that title bar.
The close window button is basically universal, but what if I want to minimize the application? What if I want to pin it to all workspaces, stack it on top of other windows, or roll it up? With CSDs there are no standards.