KDE Plasma (6.18.8.200.fc43.x86_64) - Require Virtual Desktops/Workspaces to operate ONLY on the Primary display (similar to Linux Mint, Cinnamon - my first Distro)
My head is spinning as I fall further down the rabbit hole. I’ve searched the Web, searched forums etc. and there is so much info out there which doesn’t seem to make a scrap of difference. When I get home from work I like to have the news streaming on my second display while I switch between Workspaces on my Primary monitor (HP Satellite). is there a solution/app/program/shortcut to achieve this?
As far as I know, you can right click on the title bar of the window (the news) on your second monitor, go into the “desktops” category (should be the first sub-menu you see) and select “all desktops”.
No success there. I can’t find any Desktop options in Chromium Browser
Success Samuel. I was using Chromium Browser and there was no Desktop sub-menu. Switched back to Firefox (Justin Case), and issue solved. One other issue for anybody else who reads this post looking for a solution. I have to right-click twice every time. The first right-click brings up sub-menus, first option which is “New Tab”. Second right-click brings up further sub-menus headed by the required option “Desktops”.
Happy that this did it for you! You can mark the answer as the “solution” (if I’m correct).
And you can open that “window menu” where the “desktops” option is present by pressing Alt+F3 (not Alt+F4 ).
That way, it should work both on Chromium and Firefox.
It is likely configured to show its own/internal title bar instead of the system title bar.
There is an option to switch to that but some people prefer the internal one.
As @sfiedler said, the ALT+F3 shortcut will bring up the system menu and right clicking the taskbar entry should work as well.
When using the system title bar it is also possible to add an “on all desktops” button to it, search for “Titlebar buttons” in system settings.
If you want to to be true permanently for a given application then there is another option called window rules.
Also accessible through the window system menu, usually under “more”, “configure specifial window/application settings”.
I’m a basic user who is totally confused by @sfiedler’s second part of the answer ALT F3/ALT F4 then your advice Application Menu/System Menu has overloaded me. I will have to sit down one weekend and see if i can decipher all these terms. I am very grateful for your help however, but being a card holding member or the Luddite of the First Order, and only heading down this path because i refuse d to purchase a new computer because Windows 10 died, this will take time to work through. But I am very grateful for some more solutions to try.
ALT + F3 denotes a keyboard shortcut sequence. The F3 key being pressed while the ALT key is being held. It opens the “window options menu” for the currently active window.
I referred to it as the “system menu” to distinguish with the context menu the application itself might popup when right-clicking its titlebar.
ALT + F4 was mentioned because it closes the window, so one needs to be careful not to press that when the intent is to modify the window’s properties
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