[opensuse] kicker bar and grouped programs
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.. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 05/19/2017 07:38 AM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
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
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... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 05/19/2017 10:49 AM, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
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
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....
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 I use lots of desktops also, just another level of organization tricks I use...
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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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 05/21/2017 10:18 AM, James Knott wrote:
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.
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.. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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