An gnome-shell extension that makes window movement a lot easier.
As you ended up here, I assume the installation from extensions.gnome.org didn't work :)
If you want to contribute or go the 'git way' just clone this extension and link it to the .local extension folder. This
way you can always update the extension using git pull. However wayland will not detect any updated until the next reboot.
ln -s "PATH_TO_YOUR_CLONE" ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
The extension can be configured using the gnome prefs tool.
- East/West widths, North/South heights
- Keybindings
- Change width and height when moving to corner (Always, only height, only width)
- Use multiple widths even if moving to other screen is possible
Moving windows from one screen to another is currently only possible in horizontal setup. e.g. a window that is a the left or right side of one screen, can be moved to the next screen using keyboard shortcuts.
- Move to left screen: default binding: Left
- Move to right screen: default binding: Right
The keyboard settings can be changed using the preferences.
Note: Left/Right is a default gnome-shell keyboard shortcut. Leave the keyboard bindings unset if you want to use gnomes build in funcitonality.
First release using GTK 4 for preferences. This version is not backward compatible with earlier versions and may require reconfiguring features and keyboard binding.
"Move Focus" and "application based configuration" are no longer supported and have been removed
The extension "worked" with these version but no preferences can be changed.
Gnome 45 introduced breaking changes and the extension was not updated until v46 was released. As of now the application based config was removed with v46.0 and the extension no longer requires Wnck.
I always have to search how to update the translations, so I decided to document it here
Update the .pot file from sources
gettext --from-code=UTF-8 --output=locale/[email protected] *.js
Open the .po file in Poedit and update the available translations with the pot file
For application based configuration the extension relies on the X11 library wnck.
- Suse:
sudo zypper in libwnck-devel - Arch:
pacman -S libwnck3 - Fedora:
sudo yum install libwnck3sudo dnf install libwnck3
- Debian/Ubuntu:
apt-get install gir1.2-wnck-3.0
Because of this dependency and the different concepts of wayland and X11 to identify applications (wm_class vs. application_id) Wayland is not supported!
After switching to wayland and not using this feature for ~ 2 years it was removed from the extension
- krlmr - Move to other display
- 73 - Move focus (removed in gnome-shell >= v46)
- Anthony25 - gnome-shell 3.12 support
- airtonix - gnome-shell 3.5 support
- zara86 - gnome-shell 3.16 support
- cleverlycoding - gnome-shell 3.18 support
- wdoekes - cleanup, improve move to center
- eddy-geek - gnome-shell 3.30 support
Copyright (c) 2011-2025 negesti
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of VERSION 3 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation provided that the above copyright notice is included.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Go to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html to get a copy of the license (or check the licence file)
