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By default, when one holds down Alt and drags with the mouse, it will move a window in KDE/kwin. Is there a way to disable this for a particular application?

I know there's a lot of application overrides (click top left window icon > Advanced > Special Application Settings), but I can't find one to disable this alt key. The closest I can find is to disable global keyboard shortcuts.

Brad Patton
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gatoatigrado
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In the KDE System Settings for Window Behavior, change the Window Actions for Inner Window, Titlebar, & Frame. With the modifier key set to Alt, set the left button to Nothing. You can also reassign the action to a different modifier key.

See also: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=109085

B. Szonye
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although Bradd's answer is correct, if you want to disable alt for just one application/window, you can go to window behaviour -> <application> -> appearances & fixes and check "Ignore global shortcuts" there.

haja
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There is some setting in kde, where you can choose what key should be used for the window dragging.. I switch it over to the win key - It really works well.

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