14 DAY TRIAL // Chromebook owners will soon be able to move active windows between displays using keyboard shortcuts, as Google just implemented this feature in Chrome OS.
Chromium evangelist at Google François Beaufort reports today via its Google+ page that Chrome OS just gained a bunch of new keyboard shortcuts that allow users to move active windows between displays. These are Search+Alt+Left Arrow for moving the active window to the left display and Search+Alt+Right Arrow to move to the right display.
In addition, users will be able to move active windows to the up nearest display using the Search+Alt+Up Arrow keyboard shortcut, as well as to move an active window to the down nearest display if they use the Search+Alt+Down Arrow keyboard shortcut. You can open the Keyboard Overlay to see all these new shorcuts.
You can try it in latest Chrome Canary channel
If you're interested in trying out this feature, you can switch to the Chrome Canary experimental channel on your Chromebook. If not, check out the video below to see the new feature in action as François Beaufort demonstrate it with a Google Pixelbook and an Acer smart TV.
In related news, Google is bringing split screen support in tablet mode to its Pixelbook Chromebook. This feature already landed in the latest Chrome OS Devel channel and can be enabled via the "Split view in Tablet mode" flag (chrome://flags/#enable-tablet-splitview), and Google promises to bring it to more Chromebooks soon.
Hardware-accelerated video decoding and encoding capabilities are also coming to Chrome OS in the chrome://gpu page so you can see which streams your Chromebook's GPU can handle, and don't forget that Google recently added Google Play Store and Android apps support to more Chromebooks.
