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For the "closed-source-but-non-programming-power-user" alternative to this, I'm a huge advocate of BetterTouchTool (http://www.boastr.net/). You can easily bind window snaps to everything from keypresses, to four-finger-sweeps on the trackpad, to dragging window titlebars to the screen corners. Also it's so much fun to infuriate friends when they try to use my trackpad and it moves windows all over the place.

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I Quickly had a look on all the window manager alternatives mentioned here. Currently I use flexiglass, but I use it for one reason only. It allows me to move windows like in linux.

When holding Mouse button 1 + alt anywhere in the window I can move it. I really like this feature, I never use the titlebar to move windows.

Do any of the alternatives (or hydra it self) allow me to do this? I'd like to try them out. See if it has advantages over flexiglass.

For me, the bigger idea to tiling wm, or these psuedo tiling wm is that I never have to use mouse to move/resize/shuffle windows. I too initially missed that feature when I first started using a tiling wm, but that quickly went away as soon as I had the keyboard shortcuts memorized.

The 1.1 milestone has plans for "mouse-moved" and "modifiers-changed" events that you can register for, which would let you create a feature very similar to this, where if you hold down option and move the mouse, it will move the window under the mouse with it. I'll file an issue to investigate if it's possible to register for "mouse-clicked" events and override them to be no-ops (so that you don't actually click into the window). That sounds like a fun feature :)

Shameless plug: https://github.com/jmgao/metamove

Just what I've been looking for! Thanks for this :)

If BetterTouchTool doesn't let you do some custom key/mouse input, it's probably not possible. :-)

You can use keypress + mouse movement:

http://imgur.com/ZeV8grb

...or just with the mouse alone:

http://imgur.com/JNXYf1q

Oh nice! Custom swipes is an excellent idea, I am totally going to have to look into seeing if I can add that to the API.

I absolutely love BTT. I've setup my mouse buttons and trackpad gestures to do so many different things in my apps that I'd be lost without them.

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