[Request] Lower window by middle-pressing its titlebar

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This isn't an issue, it's an enhancement request, sorry if I'm doing this 
wrong.  In email, Stefan asked that I drop this suggestion into the "Issue 
Tracker", so hopefully this is the right place and setting.  Here's the 
original request:

Hi Stefan,

I love alt-drag.

I was updating to 0.9 and re-configuring and saw your message about ideas:

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;Mouse button actions.
;Available actions: Move, Resize, Minimize, AlwaysOnTop, Center, Close, Nothing.
;If you have a great idea for a new action, send me an email!
;LMB=Left Mouse Button, MMB=Middle Mouse Button, RMB=Right Mouse
Button, MB4=Mouse Button 4, MB5=Mouse Button 5
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 Something I'd use is a way to send a window to the background.  Not
necessarily minimized, but just put it back in the z-order of windows.
 So, I was going to make "MMB = Lower", but didn't see that action in
there.

 Thanks for authoring a great program. I tried to get autoHotKeys to
do this type of thing, but my keyboard just seems to freak out when I
used autoHotKeys for more than like 1 simple key binding.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by david.da...@gmail.com on 16 Mar 2011 at 4:53

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Issue 54 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by recover89 on 25 Mar 2011 at 1:31

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I just added this, and it is working fine.

TaekWindow only does this when pressing the titlebar, while I got an entire 
action for it. Is there anything that would justify the extra work to add that 
twist? Any idea why that is the way it is usually done?

Original comment by recover89 on 5 Jun 2011 at 8:35

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• AltDrag-Lower.7z

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That sound just right.  I will give it a try, and let you know for sure.

Original comment by david.da...@gmail.com on 6 Jun 2011 at 2:44

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Closing the issue.

Original comment by recover89 on 19 Jun 2011 at 3:50

• Changed state: Fixed
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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This was nice, however I would rather (or in addition) like the standard 
unix-way of doing it: You have to middle-press on the titlebar to get this 
function (clicking without any modifiers).

Original comment by en...@stolsvik.com on 21 Jun 2011 at 2:53

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I'm reopening the issue since some wants the unix behavior. I do not expect to 
implement it in the next version however.

Original comment by recover89 on 17 Jul 2011 at 11:02

• Changed title: Request: Lower window by middle-pressing its titlebar
• Changed state: Accepted

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Original comment by recover89 on 2 Aug 2012 at 2:57

• Changed title: [Request] Lower window by middle-pressing its titlebar

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Hello.

I hope you have noticed the crowdfunding campaign on the front page. If it is 
successful, you can be sure that I will take a look at this. Also, for every 
$10 that you pledge, you will get a vote that you can cast on any bug report or 
feature request. I promise that I will make a good attempt to solve any issue 
that gets at least one vote. The more votes a bug report/feature request gets, 
the more time I will spend on it.

Please support the development of AltDrag by donating. Thank you!

// Stefan Sundin, developer

Original comment by ste...@stefansundin.com on 1 May 2013 at 6:26

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As a backer of the crowdfunding campaign, this gets my single solitary vote. 
I'd like to be able to put the cursor over the window (anywhere) and alt + 
wheel up/down would raise/lower it, but any way to lower windows in the stack 
would be great.

Thank you! Without AltDrag, Windows is unusable for me.

Original comment by mng...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2013 at 2:13

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As a backer of the crowdfunding campaign, this gets my only vote as well

Original comment by david.da...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2013 at 3:45

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Ok, I'll definitely try to make it happen.

Original comment by recover89 on 21 Jul 2013 at 8:49

• Added labels: Votes-2

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This issue was closed by revision r534.

Original comment by recover89 on 4 Sep 2013 at 9:52

• Changed state: Fixed

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Ok, I've finally done this, sorry it took so long.

A twist from other programs is that this applies to the top border and top 
corners, and the buttons (minimize,maximize,close) as well, which may be useful 
if the window has a small title bar (or none), e.g. web browsers with a lot of 
tabs open.

I will release 1.0rc very soon, which will be the final 1.0 one week later if 
no bugs are found.

Original comment by recover89 on 4 Sep 2013 at 10:10

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Cool, thanks for doing that, I'm excited to try the new altdrag client.

-David

Original comment by david.da...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2013 at 10:31

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Thank you so very much for implementing this! I hope alt+mousewheel is a 
possible way to trigger this behavior, but I think I'll survive if it isn't :)

Thanks again! AltDrag is the best!

Original comment by mng...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2013 at 11:12

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@mngrif, I have coded a scroll wheel action for it too now. And I've modified 
this action so that if you hold shift, you will minimize the window instead. 
I've tried it a little and I think it is somewhat useful.

For the scroll wheel action, I currently have: scroll down=lower, 
shift+down=minimize, up=toggle maximize. Can't figure out a decent shift+up 
though. You got any idea?

Original comment by recover89 on 11 Sep 2013 at 8:59

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No, sorry, no ideas. Thank you for going above our expectations on this 
feature! Perhaps the other folks have an idea. The big one for me is that:

alt+mousewheel up/down anywhere on the window = raise/lower

Original comment by mng...@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2013 at 11:44

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Hmm.. Yes, I guess scroll up could be raise and shift+up could be toggle 
maximize. I have no raise action right now.

Original comment by ste...@stefansundin.com on 12 Sep 2013 at 1:36

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Okay, I've committed that now. I hope everyone is happy now. :)

Original comment by ste...@stefansundin.com on 12 Sep 2013 at 9:11