If you’re like most people, you probably use Ubuntu to run your favorite software and view the latest news. But sometimes you need to move a window without clicking the titlebar. Here’s how to do it:

  1. Open a terminal window and type “xrandr”. This will show you all the available displays in your system.
  2. In this terminal window, find the display that you want to move: for example, “Monitor1”. Type “mv Monitor1 Monitor2” into the terminal window and press Enter. The new display will be named “Monitor2” in Ubuntu.
  3. Close the terminal window and reopen it so that you can continue using Ubuntu as usual.

It’s difficult to show a screenshot of dragging the window, and we haven’t quite gotten to the point of doing videos on here yet, but we’ll give it a shot.

First, you can configure the settings by going to System \ Preferences \ Window.

In the “Movement Key” section, you can select which key you want to use for the dragging. Now that you are on this window, hold down the Alt key and then click in the window anywhere, and move your mouse.

You will see that the window drags easily. Once you get used to this, it’s a great technique for moving a window easily without having to aim for the title bar.