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How can I disable 'Alt' + mouse default behavior in KDE?

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 >…
gatoatigrado
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KDE: disable super_L (windows key) key shortcut as menu launcher

Where can I disable super_L key (windows key) opening KDE menu? Or where can I change this shortcut?
pevik
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How do I move a KDE plasma panel, from commandline/scripts?

I Have a script that change my desktop layout using xrandr, but I also want to move my Panel. So far I played round with kwinscripts, using qdbus org.kde.plasmashell /PlasmaShell org.kde.PlasmaShell.showInteractiveConsole If i move it using the…
Puggan Se
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Move windows between KDE activties

KDE 4.6 Plasma Workspaces added support for managing windows in Activities, which are a sort of combination between virtual desktops and session management. But I still haven't figured out some basic functionality, and khelpcenter doesn't seem to…
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How to move cursor/focus to another monitor using keyboard shortcut in KDE?

I want to move focus of the cursor/window between monitors through keyboard shortcut in KDE, is it possible? It should be something like ctrl+meta+j/k in awesome wm.
xgdgsc
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Black out application window on KDE Plasma after long uptime

After using for a long time, application window fails to render application windows. Problem: application screen sometimes blacks out (Attached image) occurs in any application (Chrome, Thunderbird, Alacritty, KSettings, Slack, Discord,…
yuki
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Setting "Keep window thumbnails" to always in KDE "breaks minimization"? How?

KDE's Desktop effects (compositing) has a setting for when to keep window thumbnails. It says that setting this to always "breaks minimization". Does anyone know how it breaks minimization?
Ryan C. Thompson
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Kwin window over both monitors

How can I make a window span over both monitors? I have the monitors configured using the KDE monitor setting tool. I need specifically full-screen (for presentation purposes) or at least a maximized window. Kwin insists on locking the window on one…
Šimon Tóth
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How to resize tiled windows in KDE?

Since KWin 4.5 KDE is support tiling. And I'm trying to use it, particularly to change tiled windows size by pressing modifier key + right mouse button (in compliance with Window Behawior settings), but anything doesn't happens. I'm doing something…
Nelson Tatius
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How to toggle krunner with a modifier only shortcut?

I would like to toggle the krunner launcher with a modifier only shortcut. Modifier only shortcuts can be bound to D-Bus method calls in kwinrc (for example, see this blog post). I would like one key that both opens and closes krunner similar to how…
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Move active windows to specific workspace activity with qdbus in KDE

I'm using KDE plasma 5.6 with multiple activities and multiple desktops, I'd to have some application instances bound to specific combination of activity and desktop, i.e. : Telegram client on desktop 5 of all activities PDF viewer on desktop 2…
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X11 freezes with VLC and kwin

When vlc hangs because of bad reception (network stream http or udp coming from a satellite receiver), sometimes the whole X11 freezes. Then only the cursor works, but everything else hangs. When i disable compositing in with alt-shift-F12, it gets…
allo
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Graphviz window too small

I have a script which generates Graphviz graphs and displays them using the dot -Txlib command. However, it always appears in a tiny, unreadably-small window, so I have to maximise it each time. How can I make Graphviz open larger windows by…
Robin Green
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How can I have kde/kwin slide the desktop background together with the windows when switching desktops (while using the slide effect for switching)?

How can I have kde/kwin slide the desktop background together with the windows when switching desktops (while using the slide effect for switching)? At the moment, it only slides the windows while leaving the desktop background stationary, which is…
Tarnay Kálmán
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Create window-specific rule in KDE4

KDE 4 has a feature 'ElectricBorders' which maximizes a window when it's dragged towards the upper edge of the screen. I can disable it globally by editing ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc [Windows] ElectricBorderMaximize=false How can I disable this…
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