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๐คทโโ๏ธ 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. ๐
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. ๐
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.
๐ 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? ๐
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.