Comment 33 for bug 878820

Le ven. 24 févr. 2012 07:02:00 CET, psypher a écrit :
> After updating this feature is now completely broken. Pressing ctl-alt-4
> or 6 does nothing. If you have an open terminal it actually types 4 and
> 6 on the screen.
>
> I don't understand. Every single comment in this bug says they prefer
> the old way of being able to place the window anywhere on the screen and
> then being able to repeat press that key and cycle through several
> different sizes, including half screen.
>
> These are the kinds of features that users and most importantly the
> power users love and it's features like this that compels me to use
> ubuntu and recommend to everyone else. I literally use it everyday
> repeatedly. It has become part of my workflow and it's one of the main
> features which makes me MORE productive on linux than on any other OS.
> None of them have this feature which gives Unity an edge. please don't
> alienate more power users!
>
> This feature worked fine in the past and all of us have grown used to it
> and depend on it. Please figure it out and fix it.
>
> But like I said, right now it does nothing. THANK GOODNESS ctrl-alt
> 1/2/3/5/7/8/9 still works.
>

I started a discussion on unity-design mailing list (require joining
the unity-design launchpad team), but no answer yet.

There are keyboard changes on the way, you might be able to place
windows left/right with super+→ and super+← but it's still the broken
version, we need to raise this issue with design, or the same behaviour
for 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 *will* be broken for Precise+1