I recently tried out Xfce on a whim and I noticed a really cool feature which is that you can middle-click on the title bar of a window to send it behind all other windows. Does something like this exist on KDE? I did some googling as well as poking around in Plasma settings and couldn’t find anything. I think it would be really useful. I’ve actually always wanted to have a way to easily send a window to the back, even back when I was using Windows.
hi, welcome.
yes, in spades.
click on the desktop and type behavior, then go to the settings page from the search result.
under the titlebar actions tab you will find a vast array of such options.
Ah, don’t know how I missed this. Thanks!
Yup, titlebar actions (and you should also pay attention to the Keyboard Shortcuts for kwin)
Looking at the titlebar and the minimise/maximise/close buttons, you can also use context for a different result.
So titlebar - middle click to push it to the back is good, right click pulls up a menu, but then you can right click the Maximise which will maximise horizontally, and you can middle click the Maximise which will maximise vertically (I set this as the action for double-clicking the titlebar too).
You can also set separate actions (for active/inactive windows) for a right click option - remember that the Window Menu is available through the AltF3 shortcut - unless you use it very frequently it’s also useful to assign something else to that action (for example, ‘toggle raise and lower’ on an inactive window means a context click on the titlebar can bring it forward without giving it focus).
This is really useful - it means you can bring up an inactive window to view on top of something you’re using (like Firefox, writing this comment) and still have keyboard input go to the comment.
Obviously it’s nice to have a separate control to manage raise and lower which doesn’t automatically assign focus/activate the window… then also don’t forget options to ‘keep’ the windows pinned on top or below…
More options are available in the Decoration dialog (some changes, sadly, exist from X11) where we have ‘keep above/below’ and ‘on all desktops’ pins which can be really useful when managing multitasking windows you can’t shrink (like settings windows).
