Keyboard window snap-to-position on Linux

Posted by Chris Dixon on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Chris Dixon
Published on 2010-06-02T16:27:24Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 16:55 UTC
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I'm looking for a Linux utility that allows me to define arbitrary keyboard shortcuts that will move the frontmost window to a specific absolute position on-screen, depending on the shortcut.

An OSX utility which does this is Breeze (http://autumnapps.com/breeze/ ) -- Is there a Linux equivalent?

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