How can I disable the new super+arrow window screen aligning feature?

Question

I recently updated my Ubuntu desktop to the latest 23.10. Among the changes, the super+arrow keybinding that moves a focused window to the left, to the right, minimizes or maximizes, shows me a panel of running programs, e.g. Firefox, file explorer, Thunderbird, to select so that it tiles together with that program. Let's say I super-left Firefox to align to the left, then Ubuntu presents me to select Thunderbird or some other program to be aligned to the right of the screen. I can escape the selection with the esc key, however, I'd rather not have this feature at all. It isn't helpful and instead of having one effective keybinding, I also have to respond to it with another. Super+arrow should only align the window and no further action needs to be specified. Is there any way I could disable this feature?

Somehow the default behavior has changed on your system. Go to Gnome Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → Windows and remove any non-default customizations. — FedKad, Dec 01 '23 at 19:14
How exactly can this be done? Is there a "restore defaults" action somewhere? — jimav, Mar 24 '24 at 04:01

FedKad · Accepted Answer · 2023-12-01T19:43:29.187

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Please, run the Extensions (gnome-extensions-app) application and disable Ubuntu Tiling Assistant (under the Built-In section).

Instead of disabling this extension, you can just go to the Settings of this extension and disable Open after tiling a window (under Tiling Popup section).

If this does not help, please follow my comment above: Go to Gnome Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → Windows and remove any non-default customizations.

edited Dec 01 '23 at 19:43

answered Dec 01 '23 at 19:34

FedKad

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Thanks, disabling the Ubuntu Tiling Assistant helped! – mikkihiiri27 Dec 03 '23 at 17:57
Instead of disabling the tiling assistant, you may remove just the Super+arrow shortcuts. – jrouquie Oct 24 '24 at 19:04
(Still in gnome-extensions-app → tiling assistant → shortcuts) – jrouquie Oct 24 '24 at 19:05

benzkji · Answer 2 · 2024-05-06T08:45:33.737

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It's a setting in the Ubuntu (Gnome) settings app:

Ubuntu Desktop > Enhanced Tiling > Tiling Popup (disable this option)

You won't need gnome-extensions or other special things like command line magic.

edited May 06 '24 at 08:45

answered Dec 02 '23 at 09:18

benzkji

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I hadn't noticed that, should have been more thorough with checking the new settings out, thanks for mentioning! That was the option in question, indeed. – mikkihiiri27 Dec 03 '23 at 17:58
Same for me, had to land here, before checking settings in depth. – benzkji Dec 04 '23 at 09:09
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This should be the accepted answer, according to my experience. – CPBL Jan 23 '24 at 12:34

How can I disable the new super+arrow window screen aligning feature?

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