Lubuntu with only Ubuntu's workspace/tiling features

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Published on 2012-12-14T09:05:47Z Indexed on 2012/12/14 11:20 UTC
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I searched around for a long time but found nothing. I am moving from Ubuntu to Lubuntu. Everything is great (I am okay with the bland style) except for three features that I use regularly in Ubuntu.

1) Win+w / Win+s zooms out to see an overview of the current workspace and all the workspaces respectively.

2) Ctrl+Alt+num which puts the current application in a specific portion of the workspace.

3) Snap to edge of workspace.

How would I get those three features onto Lubuntu? Would that cancel out the benefit of Lubuntu, so I should just stick with Ubuntu (or any distro you can recommend)?

Thank you.

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