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Windows 7 Window Size/Position Keyboard Shortcuts

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Just a quickie for one of those "Oh damn! Gotta remember that" moments.

In Windows 7, you can use the WINDOWS-KEY + UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT to manipulate the position and size of the focused window.

WIN+LEFT: Snap to left half of screen + resize. WIN+RIGHT: Snap to right half of screen + resize. WIN+UP: Maximize WIN+DOWN: Minimize

Pressing WIN+LEFT/RIGHT multiple times will cycle the window between the primary anchor side (direction of arrow) then the opposite side then back to it's original position and size.

Enjoy!

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Windows key + digit (1-9) restores (or brings to front) the window corresponding to the respective application in the taskbar. If there are multiple windows belonging to the application, the combination will let you cycle through them all. Very useful in combination with pinning of programs to the taskbar.

Also, Windows key + l locks the screen (this one is old though).

Also, a feature that I thought was useless and stupid when I heard about it, but that I've actually come to use upon occasion: Shake a window (grab its titlebar and move your mouse quickly left and right) and all other windows (some exceptions, like dialogue boxes) will minimize. Handy if you have a bunch of stuff open, getting in the way.

I'm hooked on snap-to window edges; I'm always doing 2 or 3 things and being able to see both at the same time in an efficient manner is huge for me.

It also makes me want to get a 30" monitor, which is sort of a double edged sort :)

I love Windows 7 window snapping. Bettertouchtool emulates this on the mac: http://blog.boastr.net/

Those keyboard shortcuts are what I miss the most in my Ubuntu.

I haven't even found any way to assign keys corresponding to those actions in Ubuntu.

The closest thing I know is:

CompizConfig settings manager

Choose the "Put" plugin, under Window Management.

"Bindings" -> "Put within viewport"

and bind the window movements to the keys you want.

Never used windows 7 but I guess it does something more, perhaps resize the window horizontally/vertically ?

Much appreciated bud, worked like a charm.

Yeah Win 7 does indeed do more in less keys but I can do that with two more commands using Keyboard Shortcuts.

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