I'm using KDE Plasma 5 right now, and I noticed that the keyboard shortcut Meta + Tab is used to switch between Activities, and Alt + Tab is obviously used to switch between windows. I would like to know if there's a similar way to switch between virtual desktops, and if so, how I can set Meta + Tab to toggle it. I only have two virtual desktops, each with a bunch of specifically positioned windows in them. I'd like something more efficient than clicking on the Pager widget every time I want to quickly switch. I'm a bit new at this, so I apologize if I'm obviously doing something wrong. Thanks, community!
I have just upgraded my Kubuntu to 20.04 and looks great up up until now.
I was wondering if it's possible to change a virtual desktop env using both right+left mouse buttons and a mouse direction to define up/down/left/right (or to an opposite direction, like a "drag"). I used to do that with the very old Ubuntus (when compiz fusion was still a thing and the cube was mind blowing).
On my laptop using 12.04 I would like to have two virtual desktops, one should be visable only to the person using the computer and the other should be the one that is shown when I attach an external device. At the moment I use the "mirror display" (not sure about the english name for it) functionallity or the "not mirror display" option, but with different virtual desktops it would be nice to set up the "external monitor" before and afterwards look at some notes while giving talks etc.
How can I ajust the settings to achieve this?
Saw a lot of old questions, but no real solution. Maybe this got better with Precise multi-monitor support.
I am running Ubuntu 11.10 x64. I have tint2 installed in an attempt to get a GNOME2-like bottom-panel.
Suppose I have windows A, B, and C open on Desktop 1, and windows D and E on Desktop 2. Right now, panel buttons for all 5 windows are on the tint2 panels when I am on any desktop.
Is there a way to get tint2 to act like GNOME2 in this regard? (I.e., bottom panel should only show windows A,B,C on Desktop 1; D,E on Desktop2; no windows on Desktop 3 or Desktop 4).
I have two monitors on a NVIDIA card. KDE combines the second monitor with TWinView to all my virtual desktops. While this is nice I'd rather had an additional virtual desktop (let's say desktop #5) fixed to my second monitor while switching beetween desktop #1 to #4 on my first monitor.
Can this been done? (KDE 4.8, Ubuntu 11.10)
At the monent I can only use the following workaround: drag an application to the second monitor on desktop #1 and apply "fix to all desktops" on the window in question. Then when switching desktops the window shows on all of them but is fixed to a position on the second monitor. While this works it'd be more convenient if I could have an independent desktop on my second monitor with it's own activities; panels and stuff. And when starting an application there it should stay there also ...
I also tried to configure the second monitor as individual X-Server-Dislpay. But then still I can't send running applications over to the second screen ...