GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 80298
have a way to titlebar/window frame lower window via the mouse
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I suggest making right clicks on the titlebar and frame of a window lower the window to the bottom of the stack. (I didn't see a way in the readme to send a window to the back with a single mouse click. I experimented for a while, too, but maybe I missed it.)
Right click is used up for the window menu. Could maybe make middle click configurable, or just make it do this. Right now it doesn't do anything. Trying to collect all the things people might want it to do then decide if we need a preference, or one of them is just clearly the most useful.
Good point, I forgot about the drop-down menu. I'd vote for having the middle button lower a window. In fact, I'd probably try to stuff the ballot box. :) (The title bar right-click menu doesn't even have a lower window option.) Btw, thanks for the quick reply!
Discussing the drop down window menu made me notice this... Why is the menu brought up by both right clicking on the frame, and by pushing the "Window Menu" button on at least some of the themes? That seems to be very redundant.
Right-click menus are a hidden feature, so it should also be a button for visibility. But right-click is convenient if you know about it, and right clicking objects standardly brings up a menu for them. So it's there for consistency. Redundancy isn't a bad thing.
Fair enough. :)
*** Bug 83130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Good point on the right-click menu, but I'd still argue that right-click on titlebar is commonly understood to mean lower window, in most if not all WMs I've recently used (can't be sure because I've "always" configured it that way if it wasn't the default - and Windows doesn't count here since it doesn't have the functionality at all). One way to pop up the window menu is enough. Middle-click is problematic if the mouse does not have a middle button (common enough on laptops at least).
Is there any new information regarding this bug/enhancement? I think I must second oa@iki.fi, that right-button is the one binding that seems to be some kind of a standard across different WMs I think having right click just on the frame/titlebar NOT bring up a context menu would be tolerable. Still, if this is not an option, making middle button do the lower thing would be good. Maybe having this funktionality can spark some discussion about which final setting would be the one most people like.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90418 ***