Leon's Microblog – Posts tagged "Windows"

Because alt+drag is actually a useful combination in Firefox, I bound it to Windows key+drag (having already unbound the Windows key's bind to the Start menu years ago because I find pressing it by accident way too annoying for what *should* just be a modifier key…)
I was reading a reddit thread about window title bars versus "header bars" (header bars are essentially toolbars or tab bars, such as in Chrome) and the main argument was that, as title bars are the only way to drag a window, header bars eat into that precious space too much.
I agreed… but then I thought, surely there's a better way to drag a window in 2025 than that one barren strip. Anyway, I installed something that lets you modifier-key-click any part of the window to drag, which has apparently been a standard Linux feature for over a decade.
Screw you, Windows, I'm opening, editing AND saving this file for the next several weeks, and you're not going to pester me about how its full path just happens to start with "C:\$Recycle.Bin\"
The smiley emojis in the Window picker when Windows is in High Contrast mode look better than the coloured versions. Even the accursed "XD" emoji looks slightly less obnoxious in this form.
I can't believe Windows has just let people suffer under alt-key-codes for so long that there exists a popular website JUST for copying em-dashes to the clipboard. Inconceivable.
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