Move Next Desktop/Screen not working properly when using 3 monitors

[tran-simon]

Hi,

When using 3 monitors, for 2 of them it works fine. On my leftmost monitor, when I try to move to the next screen, it will change virtual desktops instead. I also can't go from my middle screen to the left screen.

Furthermore, it would be great to have a shortcut to only move to the next screen (and do nothing if it's the last screen or wrap around to the first screen)

thank you

[lingtjien]

The Grid-Tiling: Move Next Desktop/Screen (and previous) shortcuts prioritize screens over virtual desktops. So for example assuming you have 3 screens, 1, 2 and 3.

If you try to move a client on virtual desktop 1 and screen 1 to the next using this shortcut, then it should try to move to screen 2 virtual desktop 1, then screen 3 virtual desktop 1 and then screen 1 virtual desktop 2 (and then the same idea for the reverse process).

So I'm assuming your left most monitor is assigned screen 3.

For more fine control you can use the default KWin shortcuts Window One Desktop to the *Left/Right* and Window to *Next/Previous* Screen. The latter one should be the one you're looking for. (There is also a Window To *Next/Previous* Desktop which has slightly different behavior then the Left/Right version, you can give that a try too and see what you like better)

[tran-simon]

"Window to Next/Previous Screen" doesn't work, since when I try to resize the window after changing its screen, it will snap back to the original screen. I feel like Grid-Tiling remembers that a window is on screen 1, and when you move it to screen 2 with the KWin shortcut, it doesn't tell grid-tiling that the screen has changed, so when grid-tiling updates it snaps back the window to screen 1

Also, is there a reason why simply dragging a window to a second screen doesn't seem to work? seems like this should be the simplest way, since you can already drag windows around to tile them

[tran-simon]

Also you were right, seems like my left screen is the third screen. Any idea how to change the ordering?

[lingtjien]

"Window to Next/Previous Screen" doesn't work, since when I try to resize the window after changing its screen, it will snap back to the original screen. I feel like Grid-Tiling remembers that a window is on screen 1, and when you move it to screen 2 with the KWin shortcut, it doesn't tell grid-tiling that the screen has changed, so when grid-tiling updates it snaps back the window to screen 1

Which version are you on (KWin and this script branch)? There was a bug in an older version where screen moving didn't work (simple dragging should work)

Also you were right, seems like my left screen is the third screen. Any idea how to change the ordering?

I don't know, but KWin manages that... I only use 1 screen lol, so everytime I have to fix stuff related to multi screen setups I have to use the TV 😆

[tran-simon]

Updated grid-tiling and now moving windows with the mouse seems to work and it's enough for my workflow. Thanks a lot for your quick replies

[tran-simon]

Do you think it would be possible to add shortcuts to move windows to screens that are Up/down/left or right? Kind of like there are the "Swap up-down-left-right" shortcuts. Currently there is only move to next/previous screen.

[lingtjien]

You have the default KWin shortcuts Window to *Next/Previous* Screen for that. There are also Window to Screen *Number* shortcuts which KWin provides by default, which should give you more fine control.

But screens don't have a grid in KWin. It's just a list from front to back and the screens are labeled as such: 0, 1, 2, 3, etc... So there isn't really any grid to them, it's just a list, so there isn't a sensible approach to moving them up/down