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AlexisBRENON / ewmh_m2m

EWMH-compliant move to monitor utility
https://pypi.org/project/ewmh-m2m/
MIT License
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Keybinding on xfce not working #13

Closed biographie closed 4 years ago

biographie commented 4 years ago

I've tried to bind move-to-monitor --direction NORTH to a shortcut however I'm getting an error saying failed to execute child process (No such file or directory). I've installed using pip. However, when I run the command in the terminal window it indeed does shift the the terminal to the other monitor. Does this not work for other application windows. I'm using Xfce. Apologies if this is a trivial question.

AlexisBRENON commented 4 years ago

This is a strange issue.

Moving the terminal window when you run the command inside the terminal is the "normal" behavior. The script moves the currently active window, so if you're typing in a terminal, this terminal is active and will be moved.

However, given the error message returned, I think that XFCE does not find the command. This can happen if some PATH values are added in startup files that are not read by the login manager/x server/xfce...

In your terminal run the following command:

which move-to-monitor

Try to use this full absolute path in your XFCE key binding (instead of just move-to-monitor).

biographie commented 4 years ago

Awesome! Your solution worked. I reckon it's because python3 has been installed via anaconda thus /home/biographie/anaconda3/bin/move-to-monitor

nezam05 commented 3 years ago

Please consider to add this info in README file.