19 May
2017
19 May
'17
9:35 a.m.
There is a small annoyance with the kicker bar and grouped programs that
I wonder if it has been addressed/fixed/worked around. I often open a
number of windows for Firefox (and other programs) and configure the
kicker bar to allow such collections to be grouped together. This allows
the grouped list to be presented as a popup list of window titles
instead of having one icon per each window displayed in the kicker bar.
The trouble is that there are one or two items of the list that are not
presented above the kicker bar and instead the kicker bar overlays on
top of them. This prevents one from being able to click on that item in
order to open up the window associated with it.
Any ideas on how to fix this? I tried Google searches but suspect I am
not using the right terminology or phrasing my queries correctly in
order to find a solution. Is this a KDE issue? (I am not always sure
where the line is drawn that separates KDE things from SuSE things...)
Marc..
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19 May
19 May
9:38 a.m.
Le 19/05/2017 à 16:35, Marc Chamberlin a écrit :
The trouble is that there are one or two items of the
list that are not
presented above the kicker bar and instead the kicker bar overlays on
top of them.
did you tried the middle mouse wheel? (just a guess, I dont have so many
windows)
jdd
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12:38 p.m.
On 05/19/2017 07:38 AM, jdd(a)dodin.org wrote:
Le 19/05/2017 à 16:35, Marc Chamberlin a écrit :
Yeah that was an obvious thing to try, and I have, but no joy.... On a
regular opened window the middle mouse wheel will scroll the contents,
but on the kicker bar pop-up it acts like a regular left click and opens
the particular window that the cursor is over. It does not scroll the
contents of the pop-up menu. I wouldn't expect the contents of the pop
up list to be scrollable unless there is more content in the list than
could be display within the heights of the monitor. But what do I know,
I wasn't the designer so have no idea what the intent is... ;-)
And yeah, I admit that I am a serious abuser of windows and am always
opening lots of them. Comes from the fact that I take multi-tasking to
extremes sometimes, especially on the web where I use windows to
organize things that I am working on, and I tend to have a lot of irons
in the fire at one time, so to speak! ;-) Not unusual for me to have 20
or more windows for Firefox, each with lots of tabs! LOL It is the same
story with LibreOffice as well, I can have lots of documents open at the
same time. It is just the way I like to work....
I have been working around this by un-grouping the programs, then
hunting down the right icon in the kicker bar to open it, then
re-grouping the programs so that my kicker bar remains usable, but that
is a PITA to do all the time....
Marc...
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The trouble is that there are one or two items of
the list that are
not presented above the kicker bar and instead the kicker bar
overlays on top of them.
did you tried the middle mouse wheel? (just a guess, I dont have so
many windows)
jdd
12:49 p.m.
Le 19/05/2017 à 19:38, Marc Chamberlin a écrit :
Yeah that was an obvious thing to try, and I have, but
no joy.... On a
regular opened window the middle mouse wheel will scroll the contents,
but on the kicker bar pop-up it acts like a regular left click and opens
the particular window that the cursor is over.
I don't mean that. I use it in the notification applet, often too small
to show all. Open the applet set the cursor on the middle and rotate the
wheel, makes the content go up or down
And yeah, I admit that I am a serious abuser of
windows and am always
opening lots of them.
If I do so I'm rapidly lost :-(, and I don't care to let documents open...
I use 8 desktops
jdd
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5:24 p.m.
On 05/19/2017 10:49 AM, jdd(a)dodin.org wrote:
I use lots of desktops also, just another level of organization
tricks I
use...
Marc..
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Le 19/05/2017 à 19:38, Marc Chamberlin a écrit :
I guess I am not quite following jdd, I tried to rotate the mouse wheel
when the cursor is sitting on the icon in the kicker bar and when the
cursor is sitting somewhere in the pop up list of grouped items and
neither approach did anything but immediately open up a window. There is
no scrolling effect on the items in the pop up list....
Yeah that was an obvious thing to try, and I
have, but no joy.... On
a regular opened window the middle mouse wheel will scroll the
contents, but on the kicker bar pop-up it acts like a regular left
click and opens the particular window that the cursor is over.
I don't mean that. I use it in the notification applet, often too
small to show all. Open the applet set the cursor on the middle and
rotate the wheel, makes the content go up or down
And yeah, I
admit that I am a serious abuser of windows and am always
opening lots of them.
If I do so I'm rapidly lost :-(, and I don't care to let documents
open...
I use 8 desktops
20 May
20 May
12:27 a.m.
Le 20/05/2017 à 00:24, Marc Chamberlin a écrit :
I guess I am not quite following jdd, I tried to
rotate the mouse wheel
when the cursor is sitting on the icon in the kicker bar and when the
cursor is sitting somewhere in the pop up list of grouped items and
neither approach did anything but immediately open up a window.
too bad, sorry...
jdd
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21 May
21 May
12:18 p.m.
On 05/19/2017 10:35 AM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
There is a small annoyance with the kicker bar and
grouped programs
that I wonder if it has been addressed/fixed/worked around. I often
open a number of windows for Firefox (and other programs) and
configure the kicker bar to allow such collections to be grouped
together. This allows the grouped list to be presented as a popup list
of window titles instead of having one icon per each window displayed
in the kicker bar. The trouble is that there are one or two items of
the list that are not presented above the kicker bar and instead the
kicker bar overlays on top of them. This prevents one from being able
to click on that item in order to open up the window associated with it.
Any ideas on how to fix this? I tried Google searches but suspect I am
not using the right terminology or phrasing my queries correctly in
order to find a solution. Is this a KDE issue? (I am not always sure
where the line is drawn that separates KDE things from SuSE things...)
Marc..
I asked pretty much the same question about a month ago in the "Multiple
windows open, only 14 listed - KDE on 42.2" thread. I also find the
behaviour annoying. The only think I found that helps is to hold the
mouse pointer over the app on the bar and then use the wheel to scroll
through all the open windows for that app.
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2:05 p.m.
On 05/21/2017 10:18 AM, James Knott wrote:
On 05/19/2017 10:35 AM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Thanks James for replying, yeah I stumbled on that approach also, it
does help but leaves the windows open when you scroll to the next one.
Not exactly the behavior I want but...., clutters up and covers up other
windows that I want to work with.. I suspect this is a KDE bug and
should be reported, and I will look into doing so... I only brought it
up here to see if there was some setting somewhere that I was missing
that would change this behavior of covering up some of the items in the
list by the kicker bar.
Marc..
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There is a small annoyance with the kicker bar
and grouped programs
that I wonder if it has been addressed/fixed/worked around. I often
open a number of windows for Firefox (and other programs) and
configure the kicker bar to allow such collections to be grouped
together. This allows the grouped list to be presented as a popup list
of window titles instead of having one icon per each window displayed
in the kicker bar. The trouble is that there are one or two items of
the list that are not presented above the kicker bar and instead the
kicker bar overlays on top of them. This prevents one from being able
to click on that item in order to open up the window associated with it.
Any ideas on how to fix this? I tried Google searches but suspect I am
not using the right terminology or phrasing my queries correctly in
order to find a solution. Is this a KDE issue? (I am not always sure
where the line is drawn that separates KDE things from SuSE things...)
Marc..
I asked pretty much the same question about a month ago in the "Multiple
windows open, only 14 listed - KDE on 42.2" thread. I also find the
behaviour annoying. The only think I found that helps is to hold the
mouse pointer over the app on the bar and then use the wheel to scroll
through all the open windows for that app.
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