Ubuntu's 'drag window to side of screen expand' in a hotkey

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Published on 2013-10-22T09:50:43Z Indexed on 2013/10/22 9:59 UTC
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In ubuntu(using version 12.04), when you drag a window to the left or right side of your screen the window gets auto-maximized in height and is half of the screen on the left or right side respectively.

What would be super useful imo is a hotkey that autodetects what side of the screen your window is on the most and then expands it to a state identical to the one described in the above paragraph.

Has anyone programatically done this before? If not, how would you go about achieving this?

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