How to disable Alt to drag windows from anywhere

[obiwac]

Hi all,

I already posted this in the Cinnamon forum but I got no response so I'm posting it here.

So in alot of window managers out there, you can press a key (generally the Super or Windows key) to enable you to move a window around by dragging it from anywhere on said window. This is very useful and I for one use this all the time instead of trying to aim for the usually very small window title bar. But in Cinnamon, this key seems to be mapped to Alt. This is a problem for me, as many applications use Alt+click for certain applications, and Cinnamon blocks this. I tried looking around in the keyboard shortcut settings with no luck Is there any way to change this through the settings, or is it buried as a hard-coded value somewhere in Cinnamon's source?

Thanks for your time!

[Moem]

I already posted this in the Cinnamon forum but I got no response so I'm posting it here.

Mod note:
I've deleted the duplicate post; if you want a post moved, just ask a moderator (a good way is by reporting your own post; use the button that looks like !) and we'll be happy to check it out.

[xenopeek]

You can set it to Super+click with this command:
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier '<Super>'

Or to disable it:
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier ''

To see the current setting use:
gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier

I think changes to this setting take effect immediately but you may have to restart Cinnamon (right-click the panel, select Troubleshoot > Restart Cinnamon — this keeps your programs running, just restarts Cinnamon).

You can also install the package dconf-tools to get Dconf Editor, a GUI for editing these settings.

[s_k]

Menu->System Settings->Preferences.Windows->Behaviour->Special key to move and resize windows

[xenopeek]

Dôh

[obiwac]

I already posted this in the Cinnamon forum but I got no response so I'm posting it here.

Mod note:
I've deleted the duplicate post; if you want a post moved, just ask a moderator (a good way is by reporting your own post; use the button that looks like !) and we'll be happy to check it out.

Oh right, sorry about that!

[obiwac]

You can set it to Super+click with this command:
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier '<Super>'

Or to disable it:
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier ''

To see the current setting use:
gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier

I think changes to this setting take effect immediately but you may have to restart Cinnamon (right-click the panel, select Troubleshoot > Restart Cinnamon — this keeps your programs running, just restarts Cinnamon).

You can also install the package dconf-tools to get Dconf Editor, a GUI for editing these settings.

Menu->System Settings->Preferences.Windows->Behaviour->Special key to move and resize windows

These two work! Thanks alot!

[chepecarlos]

Thank you, it helped me a lot

You can set it to Super+click with this command:
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier '<Super>'

Or to disable it:
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier ''

To see the current setting use:
gsettings get org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier

I think changes to this setting take effect immediately but you may have to restart Cinnamon (right-click the panel, select Troubleshoot > Restart Cinnamon — this keeps your programs running, just restarts Cinnamon).

You can also install the package dconf-tools to get Dconf Editor, a GUI for editing these settings.

[porphyrogennitos]

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier '<Super>'

How can I revert this?

[legacypowers]

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier '<Super>'

How can I revert this?

i think
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.wm.preferences mouse-button-modifier '<Alt>'

[xenopeek]

Yes. Alt key is the default modifier, as described in topic start, so run the same command with <Super> replaced by <Alt> as legacypowers shows.