<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here --> ]> <!--copy from r308626 Tue May 4 17:11:51 2004 UTC --> <article id="windowbehaviour" lang="&language;"> <articleinfo> <title>Window Behavior</title> <authorgroup> <author>&Mike.McBride; &Mike.McBride.mail;</author> <author>&Jost.Schenck; &Jost.Schenck.mail;</author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </authorgroup> <date>2010-10-28</date> <releaseinfo>&kde; 4.5</releaseinfo> <keywordset> <keyword>KDE</keyword> <keyword>KControl</keyword> <keyword>system settings</keyword> <keyword>actions</keyword> <keyword>window placement</keyword> <keyword>window size</keyword> </keywordset> </articleinfo> <sect1 id="window-behavior"> <title>Window Behavior</title> <para> In the upper part of this control module you can see several tabs: <guilabel>Focus</guilabel>, <guilabel>Titlebar Actions</guilabel>, <guilabel>Window Actions</guilabel>, <guilabel>Moving</guilabel> and <guilabel>Advanced</guilabel>. In the <guilabel>Focus</guilabel> panel you can configure how windows gain or lose focus, &ie; become active or inactive. Using <guilabel>Titlebar Actions</guilabel> and <guilabel>Window Actions</guilabel> you can configure how titlebars and windows react to mouse clicks. <guilabel>Moving</guilabel> allows you to configure how windows move and place themselves when started. The <guilabel>Advanced</guilabel> options cover some specialized options involving moving windows between desktops and <quote>window shading</quote>. </para> <note> <para> Please note that the configuration in this module will not take effect if you do not use &kde;'s native window manager, &kwin;. If you do use a different window manager, please refer to its documentation for how to customize window behavior. </para> </note> <sect2 id="action-focus"> <title>Focus</title> <para> The <quote>focus</quote> of the desktop refers to the window which the user is currently working on. The window with focus is often referred to as the <quote>active window</quote>. </para> <para>Focus does not necessarily mean the window is the one at the front — this is referred to as <quote>raised</quote>, and although this is configured here as well, focus and raising of windows are configured independently.</para> <sect3 id="action-focus-focusstealin"> <title>Focus stealing prevention level</title> <para>This option specifies how much KWin will try to prevent unwanted focus stealing caused by unexpected activation of new windows.</para> <note><para>This feature does not work with the <guilabel>Focus Under Mouse</guilabel> or <guilabel>Focus Strictly Under Mouse</guilabel> focus policies.</para></note> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>None</guilabel></term> <listitem><para>Prevention is turned off and new windows always become activated.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Low</guilabel></term> <listitem><para>Prevention is enabled; when some window does not have support for the underlying mechanism and KWin cannot reliably decide whether to activate the window or not, it will be activated. This setting may have both worse and better results than the medium level, depending on the applications.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Medium</guilabel></term> <listitem><para>Prevention is enabled.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>High</guilabel></term> <listitem><para>New windows get activated only if no window is currently active or if they belong to the currently active application. This setting is probably not really usable when not using mouse focus policy.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Extreme</guilabel></term> <listitem><para>All windows must be explicitly activated by the user.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <para>Windows that are prevented from stealing focus are marked as demanding attention, which by default means their taskbar entry will be highlighted. This can be changed in the Notifications control module.</para> </sect3> <sect3 id="action-focus-focuspolicy"> <title>Focus Policy</title> <para> There are four methods &kde; can use to determine the current focus: </para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Click to Focus</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> A window becomes active when you click into it. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Focus Follows Mouse</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Moving the mouse pointer actively over a normal window activates it. New windows such as the mini command line invoked with <keycombo action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo> will receive the focus, without you having to point the mouse at them explicitly. </para> <para> In other window managers, this is sometimes known as <quote>Sloppy focus follows mouse</quote>. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Focus Under Mouse</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> The window that happens to be under the mouse pointer becomes active. If the mouse is not over a window (for instance, it's on the desktop) the last window that was under the mouse has focus. New windows such as the mini command line invoked with <keycombo action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo> will not receive the focus, you must move the mouse over them to type. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Focus Strictly Under Mouse</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para>Similar to <guilabel>Focus Under Mouse</guilabel>, but even more strict with its interpretation. Only the window under the mouse pointer is active. If the mouse pointer is not over a window, no window has focus. New windows such as the mini command line invoked with <keycombo action="simul">&Alt;<keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo> will not receive the focus, you must move the mouse over them to type. </para> <note><para>Note that <guilabel>Focus Under Mouse</guilabel> and <guilabel>Focus Strictly Under Mouse</guilabel> prevent certain features, such as the <keycombo action="simul">&Alt;	</keycombo> walk-through-windows dialog, from working properly.</para> </note> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <para> Once you have determined the focus policy, there are the window raising options. </para> <para> By placing a mark in front of <guilabel>Raise, with the following delay</guilabel>, &kde; can bring a window to the front if the mouse is over that window for a specified period of time. When <guilabel>Delay focus by</guilabel> is enabled, there will be a delay after which the window the mouse pointer is over will become active (receive focus). This is very useful with the <guilabel>Focus Follows Mouse</guilabel> option. You can determine the delay for both options by using the spin box controls. </para> <tip> <para> Setting the delay too short will cause a rapid fire changing of windows, which can be quite distracting. Most people will like a delay of 100-300 ms. This is responsive, but it will let you slide over the corners of a window on your way to your destination without bringing that window to the front. </para> </tip> <para> If you do not use auto raise, make sure the <guilabel>Click raise active window</guilabel> option has a mark in front of it. You will not be happy with both auto raise and <guilabel>Click raise active window</guilabel> disabled, the net effect is that windows are not raised at all. </para> </sect3> <!-- not in 4.5 <sect3 id="action-focus-keyboard"> <title><guilabel>Navigation</guilabel></title> <para> In the <guilabel>Navigation</guilabel> frame you can configure the way switching between applications or desktops using <keycombo action="simul"> &Alt;	</keycombo> or <keycombo action="simul"> &Ctrl;	</keycombo>. </para> <para> Switching applications using <keycombo action="simul">&Alt; 	</keycombo>, &ie; holding down &Alt; while repeatedly pressing the 	 key, can take place in &kde; mode or in &CDE; mode: in &kde; mode you will see a box in the middle of the screen showing you the currently selected application while you are still holding down the &Alt; key. In &CDE; mode focus goes to each new window as it's selected. </para> <para> <guilabel>Show window list while switching windows</guilabel> missing Next there is an option where you can choose to <guilabel>Traverse windows on all desktops</guilabel> or not. With this enabled, switching windows with <keycombo action="simul"> &Alt;	</keycombo> will show all windows, on all desktops, and take you to the appropriate desktop for the window you select. With it disabled, only windows on your current desktop are selectable with <keycombo action="simul"> &Alt;	</keycombo>, and you must use <keycombo action="simul">&Ctrl;	</keycombo> to switch to other desktops yourself. </para> <para>If you check the <guilabel>Desktop navigation wraps around</guilabel> checkbox, then after you reach the <quote>last</quote> desktop, pressing 	 again will select the first desktop again.</para> <para>Many people name their virtual desktops according to their purpose or some other naming scheme. You may find it convenient to select the <guilabel>Popup desktop name on desktop switch</guilabel>, so you can quickly tell that you have switched to the right one.</para> </sect3> --> </sect2> <sect2 id="titlebar-actions"> <title>Titlebar Actions</title> <para> In this panel you can configure what happens to windows when a mousebutton is clicked on their titlebars. </para> <sect3 id="action-actions-sec1"> <title><guilabel>Titlebar double-click</guilabel></title> <para> In this drop down box you can select either <guilabel>Shade</guilabel>, several variations of <guilabel>Maximize</guilabel> or <guilabel>Lower</guilabel>. </para> <para> Selecting <guilabel>Maximize</guilabel> causes &kde; to maximize the window whenever you doubleclick on the titlebar. You can further choose to maximize windows only horizontally or only vertically.</para> <para><guilabel>Shade</guilabel>, on the other hand, causes the window to be reduced to simply the titlebar. Double clicking on the titlebar again, restores the window to its normal size. </para> <!-- <guilabel>Titlebar wheel event</guilabel> missing --> <tip> <para> You can have windows automatically unshade when you simply place the mouse over their shaded titlebar. Just check the <guilabel>Enable hover</guilabel> check box in the <guilabel>Advanced</guilabel> tab of this module. This is a great way to reclaim desktop space when you are cutting and pasting between a lot of windows, for example. </para> </tip> </sect3> <sect3 id="action-actions-sec2"> <title><guilabel>Titlebar & Frame</guilabel></title> <para> This section allows you to determine what happens when you single click on the titlebar or frame of a window. Notice that you can have different actions associated with the same click depending on whether the window is active or not. </para> <para> For each combination of mousebuttons, modifiers, Active and Inactive, you can select the most appropriate choice. The actions are as follows: </para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Activate</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Make this window active. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Lower</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Will move this window to the bottom of the display. This will get the window out of the way. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Nothing</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Just like it says. Nothing happens. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Operations Menu</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Will bring up a small submenu, where you can choose window related commands (&ie; Maximize, Minimize, Close, &etc;). </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Raise</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Will bring the window to the top of the display. All other windows which overlap with this one, will be hidden <quote>below</quote> it. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term>Toggle Raise & Lower</term> <listitem> <para> This will raise windows which are not on top, and lower windows which are already on top. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </sect3> <sect3 id="action-actions-maximize-button"> <title><guilabel>Maximize Button</guilabel></title> <para> This section allows you to determine the behavior of the three mouse buttons onto the maximize button. You have the choice between vertical only, horizontal only or both directions. </para> </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 id="window-actions"> <title>Window Actions</title> <sect3 id="action-actions-sec3"> <title><guilabel>Inactive Inner Window</guilabel></title> <para> This part of the module, allows you to configure what happens when you click on an inactive window, with any of the three mouse buttons. </para> <para> Your choices are as follows: </para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Activate, Raise & Pass Click</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> This makes the clicked window active, raises it to the top of the display, and passes a mouse click to the application within the window. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Activate & Pass Click</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> This makes the clicked window active and passes a mouse click to the application within the window. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Activate</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> This simply makes the clicked window active. The mouse click is not passed on to the application within the window. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Activate & Raise</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> This makes the clicked window active and raises the window to the top of the display. The mouse click is not passed on to the application within the window. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </sect3> <sect3 id="action-actions-sec4"> <title><guilabel>Inner Window, Titlebar & Frame</guilabel></title> <para> This bottom section, allows you to configure additional actions, when a modifier key (by default &Alt;) is pressed, and a mouse click is made on a window.</para> <para> Once again, you can select different actions for <mousebutton>Left</mousebutton>, <mousebutton>Middle</mousebutton> and <mousebutton>Right</mousebutton> button clicks and the <guilabel>Mouse wheel</guilabel>. </para> <para>Your choices are:</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Lower</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Will move this window to the bottom of the display. This will get the window out of the way. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Move</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Allows you to drag the selected window around the desktop. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Nothing</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Just like it says. Nothing happens. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Raise</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Will bring the window to the top of the display. All other windows which overlap with this one, will be hidden <quote>below</quote> it. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Resize</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> Allows you to change the size of the selected window. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Toggle Raise & Lower</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> This will raise windows which are not on top, and lower windows which are already on top. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 id="action-moving"> <title>Moving</title> <sect3> <title><guilabel>Windows</guilabel></title> <para>The options here determine how windows appear on screen when you are moving them. Most of these options exact a price in performance, so if you want to streamline your desktop, you should turn them off. However, if you have a fast computer, they may make your day a little more pleasant, so leave them on.</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Display content in moving windows</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para>Enable this option if you want a window's content to be fully shown while moving it, instead of just showing a window <quote>skeleton</quote>. The result may not be satisfying on slow computers without graphic acceleration.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Display content in resizing windows</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para>Enable this option if you want a window's content to be shown while resizing it, instead of just showing a window <quote>skeleton</quote>. The result, again, may not be satisfying on slower computers.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Display window geometry when moving or resizing</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para>Enable this option if you want a popup tooltip to tell you the size in pixels of a window as you resize it.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Display borders on maximized windows</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para>When enabled, this feature activates the border of maximized windows, and allows you to move or resize them just as you can normal windows.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </sect3> <sect3> <title><guilabel>Snap Zones</guilabel></title> <para>The rest of this page allows you to configure the <guilabel>Snap Zones</guilabel>. These are like a magnetic field along the side of the desktop and each window, which will make windows snap alongside when moved near.</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Border snap zone:</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para>Here you can set the snap zone for screen borders. Moving a window within the configured distance will make it snap to the edge of the desktop.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Window snap zone:</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para>Here you can set the snap zone for windows. As with screen borders, moving a window near to another will make it snap to the edge as if the windows were magnetized.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Center snap zone:</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para>Here you can set the snap zone for the screen center, &ie; the <quote>strength</quote> of the magnetic field which will make windows snap to the center of the screen when moved near it.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Snap windows only when overlapping</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para>If checked, windows will not snap together if they are only near each other, they must be overlapping, by the configured amount or less.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </sect3> </sect2> <sect2 id="action-advanced"> <title>Advanced</title> <para> In the <guilabel>Advanced</guilabel> panel you can do more advanced fine tuning to the window behavior. </para> <variablelist> <title>Shading</title> <!--not in 4.5 varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Animate</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para>If this option is enabled, shading, or rolling up a window until just the title bar is shown, will be animated.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry--> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Enable hover</guilabel></term> <listitem> <para> If this option is enabled, a shaded window will un-shade automatically when the mouse pointer has been over the titlebar for some time. Use the slider to configure the delay un-shading. </para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <variablelist> <title>Window Tabbing</title> <varlistentry> <term>When turned on attempt to automatically detect when a newly opened window is related to an existing one and place them in the same window group.</term> <listitem><para> </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Switch to automatically grouped windows immediately</guilabel></term> <listitem><para>When turned on immediately switch to any new window tabs that were automatically added to the current group.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Placement</guilabel></term> <listitem><para>The placement policy determines where a new window will appear on the desktop. <guilabel>Smart</guilabel> will try to achieve a minimum overlap of windows, <guilabel>Cascade</guilabel> will cascade the windows, and <guilabel>Random</guilabel> will use a random position. <guilabel>Centered</guilabel> will open all new windows in the center of the screen, and <guilabel>Zero-Cornered</guilabel> will open all windows with their top left corner in the top left corner of the screen.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Hide utility windows for inactive applications</guilabel></term> <listitem><para>When turned on, utility windows (tool windows, torn-off menus,...) of inactive applications will be hidden and will be shown only when the application becomes active. Note that applications have to mark the windows with the proper window type for this feature to work.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <variablelist> <title>Tiling</title> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Enable Tiling</guilabel></term> <listitem><para>A tiling window manager lays out all the windows in a non-overlapping manner. This way all windows are always visible. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Default Tiling Layout</guilabel></term> <listitem><para>Select <guilabel>Spiral</guilabel>, <guilabel>Columns</guilabel> (Two-column horizontal tiling layout) or <guilabel>Floating</guilabel> (Floating layout, windows are not tiled at all) as default here. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><guilabel>Floating Windows Raising</guilabel></term> <listitem><para>The window raising policy determines how floating windows are stacked. <guilabel>Raise/Lower floating windows</guilabel> all will raise all floating windows when a floating window is activated. <guilabel>Raise/Lower current window only</guilabel> will raise only the current window. <guilabel>Floating windows are always on top</guilabel> keep floating windows on top, even when a tiled window is activated.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <!--not in 4.5 in this module <para>Finally, you can configure <guilabel>Active Desktop Borders</guilabel>. If this is enabled, moving the mouse to a screen border will change your desktop. This is useful if you want to drag windows from one desktop to another.</para> <para>You can set this option to <guilabel>Disabled</guilabel>, which is the default, to <guilabel>Only when moving windows</guilabel>, or to <guilabel>Always enabled</guilabel> in which case just pushing your mouse against the side of the screen will switch you to a new desktop.</para> --> </sect2> </sect1> </article>
