alt-drag completely breaks with 4k resolution and other display settings

[chrisdtaylor]

I've been loving alt-drag for a while now. I recently got a 4k monitor and found that alt-drag goes nuts when doing alt-drag things on windows in the 4k monitor. For example, it doesn't "grab" the window the cursor is on but rather some other window. This makes the alt-left-click + drag action useless. Similar behavior happens when trying to resize using alt-right-click + drag.

Along the way I've also noticed that alt-drag gets thrown off if you have a non-100% display scale factor (something you tend to do with a 4k monitor). I tested that without the 4k monitor connected and found that alt-drag breaks down in similar ways.

I'd love to hear if a fix is possible or if I should look elsewhere for a similar utility. One promising option out there (not free) is this one: http://mizage.com/windivvy/. I'm not yet sure if it does everything alt-drag (used to) do for me, but I'm looking.

I'm also content to hear, "yeah, alt-drag dev is dead and you should just look elsewhere" if that's where things are :).

[stefansundin]

AltDrag is not dead, but on life support, because I don't have the time to work on it. It's just a hobby. I think your problems may be fixed if you follow these instructions: #7 (comment)

[chrisdtaylor]

@stefansundin, thanks for the reply! I do appreciate that this is a hobby and that hobbies get low priority.

I have attempted to follow the linked comment you gave, but when I open up AltDrag properties window, I don't have a Compatibility tab. Here's what mine looks like:

And to confirm the version I have (freshly installed, I might add):

Any idea what I might be missing? Is it possible my corporate IT has somehow limited something here?

[chrisdtaylor]

It finally clicked. I need to find the .exe (as the comment clearly states), not right-click the tray icon. Will try that. Thanks!

[chrisdtaylor]

Worked! Thanks a million! I love AltDrag. Will be sending some contribution as a token of my thanks.