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Alt+Left/Right Mouse dragging/resizing Windows (a la Linux desktop) #4454

Closed Axel-Shark closed 4 years ago

Axel-Shark commented 4 years ago

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

Clicking on Window toolbars requires a needless degree of precision when all you're trying to do is move a window (or resize with respect to the corner). In Linux you can use ALT+Left Mouse to move a Window so long as the cursor is anywhere within the window and use ALT+Right Mouse to resize a window if the cursor is within it. This is such a great productivity booster and I don't understand why it isn't a built-in feature of Windows already considering it's been in Linux for at least 20 years.

There's already a deprecated Windows program that does it, but a native and supported implementation would be much better. https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

See this site. https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/

enricogior commented 4 years ago

Hi @Axel-Shark the tracker for this feature is https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/269 Feel free to add your comments there. Closing this as duplicate. Thanks.