GNOME – How to Disable Window Move with Alt + Left Mouse Button

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There are lots of posts on this about Unity, this is about GNOME shell.

As with other posters, I use apps (Inkscape in particular) that uses Alt-Click and Alt-drag. GNOME shell is grabbing this off me and thus disabling features in the application.

I have tried

using ccsm's Move plugin – you can turn this off and you still get Alt-drag window moving.
using gconf editor to change /apps/metacity/general/mouse_button_modifier – this has no effect AFAICS.

It's really hindering me. Otherwise I find GNOME shell a really productive environment.

Best Answer

First of all, install dconf-tools .

To do that, run the following command:

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Then open it, Alt+F2 → dconf-editor.

Scroll down to org → gnome → desktop → wm → preferences → mouse-button-modifier → Set it to whichever key you like.

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Or, equivalently,

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier "<Super>"

in the terminal. (This requires neither dconf-editor, nor dconf-tools )

Warning: Setting it to nothing means that all clicks move windows, instead of disabling it!

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Ubuntu – How to remember a window position in gnome shell

I could achieve something like that using devilspie2 (also check here for a few tips https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Devilspie)

sudo apt install devilspie2 lua5.2

and then created the following file at ~/.config/devilspie2/terminator.lua

if (get_application_name() == "terminator") then
  -- x,y, xsize, ysize
  set_window_geometry(683, 32, 683, 768);
end

Nevertheless I still can't exactly reproduce gnome shell's behavior. If I tile terminator to the left win win-left, the windows decoration disappears, and it appears again if I restore it, with this lua script windows decoration remain visible

And finally to make it autostart I created the following file at ~/.config/autostart/devilspie2.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name="devilspie2"
GenericName="devilspie2"
Comment="devilspie2 process"
Exec=/usr/bin/devilspie2
Terminal=false
Type=Application
X-Gnome-Autostart=true

Gnome Shell – Move Window to Left or Right Workspace

Use gsettings, not dconf, see this. e.g.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings move-to-workspace-right "['<Shift><Ctrl><Alt>Right']"

etc

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