GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 95004
Right click on window list should allow desktop switching
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Not sure if this is a metacity or window list applet bug, so putting here.... Some apps do their own window border decorations - ie XMMS. This means that you cannot currently change which virtual desktop they are on without actually closing and reopening the app. Ideally the "Put on desktop..." options would be available on right click as well from the window list applet. thanks -mike
You can Alt+rightclick on the xmms for the moment, though that's sort of a hidden feature. Also of course you can drag it in the workspace switcher applet. On HEAD, the right-click menu on the window list buttons is the same as the metacity window menu, except there's only "on all workspaces" and "only on this workspace", no per-workspace menu items. I'm not sure if the per-space items should be there, as you would have to mouse up over them to get to the other items. But I can see a consistency argument.
Thanks for the timely reply :) I'd suggest putting the "to workspace" options on the context menu: 1) They are useful. XMMS is too small to drag on the window switcher applet, and Alt-Rightclick is way too hidden.... I'd have never found it if you hadn't told me. 2) Mousing over isn't so bad, as usually those other menu options aren't used all that much. Who chooses close from that menu rather than click on the X on the window border? Usually an app that does its own decorations will provide close/max/min buttons. 3) "On all" and "On this" is useful, but not so much for moving things between workspaces. Otherwise thanks very much for metacity, it's great! I love the window timeout kill feature, oh, I know I should file another bug, but is there any chance of doing what KDE does and binding Ctrl-Alt-Escape to xkill?
Any movement on this one? I'd say not having the per desktop menu items is a bad idea, as to move XMMS from one desktop to another I'd have to put it on all desktops, then switch to the one I wanted, the select "only on this desktop", far more clicks and thoughts than are actually needed. Also, is there a bug for "Always on top" in the window menu? I'd find this really helpful, one of the things that annoyed me about Windows was that the app was in charge of always-on-top, not me. There was as far as I could see no good reason for that, other than it not being implemented. KWin can do this and I used to use it all the time. thanks -mike
put on all workspaces is now in the context menu of the window list in cvs.
The "move between workspace" is a dup'. The "Always on top" should be a new bug (but I think this won't happen: there already was a decision on this, IIRC). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96087 ***