Switch Windows Without Switching Workspace

Ricewarrior · 2011-10-31 15:24:12

I'm using xfce4 4.8, xfdesktop version 4.8.3 and Arch Linux 3.0 on a 32-bit system.
\I've been browsing around and reading up on this for the past few hours and can't seem to find any simple answer to this. Is this feature implemented in xfce4? Or is there a way to at least disable this?
Basically, I want to be able to move my Firefox window to workspace 4 without automatically switching to workspace 4 in the process. It's a really annoying feature, and I like to move my windows out of the way when I don't need them. The fact that I have to keep switching back is pretty irritating, so does anybody know a solution?

angstrom · 2011-10-31 17:46:27

Normally when you right-click on the window's caption (or on the the window button of your window on the task bar), you will have a menu "Move to another workspace" to send your window to another workspace without leaving the current one. It works on Xfce 4.8
I don't know if this exists in command line or keyboard shortcut.

ToZ · 2011-11-01 01:20:13

The Workspace Switcher applet also works in the same fashion. You drag and drop the window from one workspace to another and it moves it there without changing focus to that workspace.

Ricewarrior · 2011-11-01 17:08:40

So there's no actual keyboard shortcut to do this? It's a pretty tedious process to drag and drop since I'm on a laptop.

Psy[H[] · 2012-04-02 11:49:45

That kinda bugs me too, I'm not a mouse type.
And that bug has a very sad history: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2412

ToZ · 2012-04-02 23:44:53

Try this command to move the active window to another desktop without switching to that desktop:

xdotool set_desktop_for_window `xdotool getactivewindow` <desktop>

...where <desktop> is the desktop number you want to send the window to.

Create a keyboard shortcut using this command:

bash -c "xdotool set_desktop_for_window `xdotool getactivewindow` <desktop>"

You need to have xdotool installed.

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