How to use Super-L instead of Alt in XFCE for resizing/moving windows?

Question

In XFCE, when holding down Alt and then clicking anywhere in a window with the left button will move that window (as if by dragging the title bar), or resize the windows when clicking and dragging with the right button.

I like this feature very much, and I'm used to it, since forever. But I've always had it bound to Super-L(left "Windows"-Key).

How do I change the behavior of Alt for Super-L? I was looking at XFCE Settings Manager but I couldn't find it anywhere.

Solution 1

In the Settings Manager choose Window Manager Tweaks, then on the third tab, Accessibility you will find the control Key used to grab and move windows:

Solution 2

As @jim-stewart wrote in his note, the "Window Manager Tweaks" does not seem to be installed (in some cases / by default) in the current xfce.

I could set the Window key for moving the windows by

• going into "Settings > Settings Editor",
• choose the "xfwm4" channel and
• set easy_click to Super" (it'sAlt` by default).

Comments

[Jim Stewart]

This doesn't appear to exist in xfce4, and I was unable to find an equivalent.

[SkaveRat]

@JimStewart I just had that problem in xubuntu 17.10 and the post above works fine for me

[a.l.e]

I was installing an Italian Xfce on Debian stable and I could not find it. I might be missing some packages. Maybe, it's just not installed by default... On the other side, the "Settings Editor" should always be installed.

[Admin]

How to change it to Right Alt ? (it works only with Left Alt for me)