Mint 12 Compiz Grid plugin

[helgatheviking]

i'm running the cinnamon desktop have compiz installed. i've tried setting the Grid plugin keyboard shortcuts for put left and put right, but none of the keyboard shortcuts seem to work. does the grid plugin not work? am i missing some part of the configuration process? i saw other people have had this problem ( viewtopic.php?f=90&t=95375 ) but am wondering if there is a fix?

[zerozero]

i'm running the cinnamon desktop have compiz installed

cinnamon and gnome-shell are not compatible with compiz, they use their own compositing.
you can still use compiz under gnome-classic (aka fallback mode) or MATE.

[helgatheviking]

so compiz doesn't work at all? should i just uninstall it then? i like cinnamon the best out of the desktops. is there a "grid"-like substitute that you are aware of? thanks for the quick reply!

[zerozero]

for what i know, not exactly the same behaviour as compiz' grid.
you have tiling built-in:

Window maximizing and tiling: You can maximize a window by dragging it to the top edge of the screen. Alternatively, you can double-click the window title. To unmaximize, pull it down again. By dragging windows to the left and right edges of the screen you can tile them side by side.

and for gnome-shell you have gTile https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/28/gtile/
(i imagine that it wouldn't be that hard to port it to cinnamon)

[helgatheviking]

and for gnome-shell you have gTile https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/28/gtile/
(i imagine that it wouldn't be that hard to port it to cinnamon)

might not be too hard if you have half a clue about programming. if you don't though....

anyway, i thought the tiling was from compiz, but you're right, that is built-in. is there a way to bind a keyboard shortcut to the tile left and tile right?

[zerozero]

might not be too hard if you have half a clue about programming. if you don't though....

like me

is there a way to bind a keyboard shortcut to the tile left and tile right?

as far as i can see no

once again for the shell (be careful this is labelled as alpha software and the install process is not exactly straightforward)
you could try <<after read the warning in red>> this
http://gfxmonk.net/shellshape/
https://github.com/gfxmonk/shellshape

[helgatheviking]

thanks for all your help. sucks there's no keyboard shortcut available yet. that's one thing i got addicted to in windows. i do a lot of side by side comparison stuff. shellshape looks promising, but since i don't know what am doing with linux i'm a litle leary of alpha phase software.

[whatever]

I'm still using 11.04 with Compiz but I've following development of Cinnamon very closely. At the moment the Grid-like plugin/applet is the only thing that is missing from Cinnamon and therefore stops me from switching to it full-time. I hope that some skilled programmer will come up with an applet for Cinnamon offering this functionality...