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How to move a window to the next monitor on

Xfce (Xubuntu)
Unfortunately, Compiz does not play nice with Xfce for me and Xfce itself does not offer a way to
move a window to the next monitor.

Since I use this a lot in my daily work and there were no scripts working properly for me, I made one
myself.
It's actually not bound to Xfce but should work on any window manager (haven't tried it, though).

Installation
1. If you don't yet have xdotool, install it:

sudo apt-get install xdotool

2. If you don't yet have wmctrl, install it:

sudo apt-get install wmctrl

3. Store the attached file in some place that's in your PATH.

The cool kids use ~/bin/.

4. Make it executable: chmod +x ~/bin/move-to-next-monitor

Trying it
Open up a terminal and run it:

move-to-next-monitor

There should be no errors and the terminal window should have moved one monitor to the right.

Assigning a keyboard shortcut

1. Open up the Xfce settings → Keyboard → Keyboard shortcuts
2. Add an entry for move-to-next-monitor and assign a keyboard shortcut to it.
3. It should be active right away, so try it on the settings window. :)

Done!

Props to icyrock.com (http://icyrock.com/blog/2012/05/xubuntu-moving-windows-between-monitors/) who had a

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script that was basically working (not properly on 3 monitors and was lacking some workarounds)
and saved me quite some time figuring this all out.

Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev

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