hi,

I was using unity-tweak-tool to set desktop corner actions on the corners to make gui windows resize to a quarter of the monitor. This is working in Ubuntu 16.04.

I am doing the same configuration in Ubuntu 19.10 in Unity DE but it has no effect. It snapps to the sides only and fills half the screen.
I am using unity 7.5.0 with lightdm

I found a possible solution here: https://askubuntu.com/a/26348/881300
but it is very old. I did not try this yet. I also didn't find a whole lot on the internet because 'windows' and 'snap' results in highly irrelevant search results.

I am using dual monitor setup.

How can I make windows snap to a quarter of the monitor screen size in Ubuntu 19.10 for Unity?

How did you even install Unity on 19.10? I thought 17.something was the last version of Ubuntu to include it?

Correct - "new" Ubuntu uses Gnome, not Unity. OP: maybe try to install "gnome tweak tool" to see if it can configure the desktop for this behavior?

thank you for your replies.

Yes, Ubuntu 17.04 and later are using Gnome but I don't like it. I installed Unity from official ubuntu repository using apt:

I can't find any settings for this in `gnome-tweaks`, unless perhaps `Edge Tiling` which is already enabled?

Sorry, I may have misled you then - I didn’t know you had actually installed Unity. Gnome tweak tool is strictly for gnome. My apologies.

no problemo

I kind of overlooked on this one as it is half way described on the link I provided, but I was able to set it up with compizconfigsettingsmanager:



I was hesitant in installing too many tweak tools but with this one I've got it to work.