Is there a way to assign a keyboard shortcut to move the window-in-focus between monitors?

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Hi, I’m new to qubes and I’ve gone through some discussions and made qubes more keyboard friendly using scripts… Now it would be handy if I could move the window in focus between monitors… Has anyone done it yet or can anyone help me with it…?
I think the challenge here is to figure out “which monitor the window is on”…

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System Settings → Windows Manager → Move window to left/right workspace

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Workspaces are not the same as monitors, though…I don’t think there’s a readily available Xfce mechanism to move a window onto a different monitor (if used in expand mode), but you could write a script that makes use of xdotool windowmove x y (see man xdotool in dom0) to achieve this for your default setup.

To get the window’s current coordinates use xdotool getwindowgeometry --shell windowID, which will store x and y coordinates in $X and $Y automatically. You can get the windowID of the window in focus by executing xdotool getwindowfocus in the same script.

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You can use wmctrl and xdotool to do it, you use window=$(printf '0x0%x' $(xdotool getwindowfocus)) to get the focused window, and then you move it with wmctrl.

Here is some info on how to work with the window
https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/controlling-xfce-windows-with-wmctrl/22299
https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/tiling-xfce-windows-with-shortcut-keys/22840

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Thanks…
xdotool windowmove is indeed what I’ve been looking for …

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