Cinnamon style key-shortcuts for window tling and moving?

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I am actually only with Cinnamon because I really like how the key-shortcuts work for tiling and moving windows. It’s so easy and intuitive …

Press [WIndow-key] + user cursor keys to move up/down , left-right … and i.e. you move a window to the left half, you can put it in the top or bottom corner just with another cursor-up/-down keypress.

Any (easy) was to do that in xfce as well ?

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It was** something like

Settings > Window Manager > Shortcuts

There you should be able to assign various ‘Tile …’ actions to keyboard shortcuts.

** Note this is based off of old XFCE, so the exact path/name might be a little different.

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Yes, I looked into it a while ago, but as far as I remember found only 1-key-stroke command , not something what would allow me to

  1. [Window} + [right cursor] => move window to the right half
  2. [Window} + [down cursor] => make the half-window a 1/4-window and move to to the bottom-right
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If what XFWM offers is not robust enough for you then you could change out the window manager.

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Don’t think xfce can make quarter-windows. :sleepy: Halfwindows work good.

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It can be done natively, see: Tiling in xfce and xfce:xfwm4:preferences [Xfce Docs]

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Damn, i have missed that somehow. It can actually do quarter-windows.

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The default keyboard shortcuts for tiling are mapped to the keypad (with Num Lock turned off) and do not work on my 88-key keyboard

xfce-tiling

User can edit shortcuts in Window Manager (xfwm4-settings) or Settings Editor (xfce4-settings-editor) to use the arrow keys and Home, End, Page Up, Page Down

Custom shortcuts using the Super key do not work for me so I use the Alt key instead

$ xfconf-query --channel xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts --list --verbose | grep tile | grep custom
/xfwm4/custom/<Alt>Down                    tile_up_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Alt>End                     tile_down_left_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Alt>Home                    tile_up_left_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Alt>Left                    tile_left_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Alt>Page_Down               tile_down_right_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Alt>Page_Up                 tile_up_right_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Alt>Right                   tile_right_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Alt>Up                      tile_down_key