I often keep Chrome open on the left half of my screen and Firefox open on the right half of my screen. On both browsers there’s blank space to the right of open tabs that is clickable. On Windows I can click this strip of blank space and it brings that browser “in focus”. When I click this same strip of blank space in KDE it brings the browser out of it’s snapped “half screen” state and transforms the window state into “floating window” somewhere near the middle of my screen. I then have to proceed to resnap the browser to it’s “half screen” state.
How do I disable this behavior of a single click to the right of my open tabs in either browser causes the window to change state? I only want it to focus the current window, just as if I was clicking any other blank space on the browser.
that should be the default behavior in KDE as well.
you might want to review your settings in all the various tabs under window behavior to o make sure the focus actions are what you expect for both active and inactive windows.
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Just clicking should only focus, and click/drag would move the window - so I’m wondering if it’s some weird setting you’ve enabled (test it with a fresh USER) or if you’re actually dragging it to pull it out of the snap…
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I thought the same thing that the threshold for moving a window could be 1 pixel or some small number. So I went ahead and placed my cursor in this strip of blank space to the right of the browser tabs, then I hovered my mouse an inch off my desk to ensure the cursor was fixed on an x,y location and wouldn’t deviate from it. Then I left clicked the mouse and the issue still occurred. The window goes from a snapped state to a floating state.
This only happens on browsers for some reason. I guess it’s because the browser has this “not quite a title bar” area that’s sandwiched between the actual title bar and the body of the browser. It happens both on Chrome based browsers and Firefox. But not on other Linux programs. And I have two similar computers and settings, and this issue occurs on Kubuntu with Plasma 5.x but not on KDE Neon with Plasma 6.x. I might just have to live with it until Kubuntu is on Plasma 6.x. Hopefully it goes away.
Hi - just as a note on that: if you’re on Kubuntu 24.04, it will not be upgraded to Plasma 6. It’s a “long term support” release, which means that many software components do not have new upstream versions included, but only select patches incorporated by the distribution itself.
In order to use Plasma 6 on Kubuntu, you’ll have to upgrade to 24.10 and then keep up with the Ubuntu interim releases until 26.04.
The ‘solution’ is to enable native titlebars, or learn to live with it… It’s something that I wouldn’t have noticed