Xfwm4- Settings?: Issue with enabling wrap_windows with Xubuntu as VM

lasakro · 2016-01-03 04:32:59

Hello,

First post here.

I've got Ubuntu Studio 15.10 running as a host with Xfce 4.12.1 and Xubuntu 15.10 running in Virtualbox 5 with Xfce 4.12.1 but I'm not able to move windows between workspaces on the VM, host works fine.

When I run:

xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/wrap_windows -s false (true)

on the host I'm able to toggle the behaviour off then on. What I run it on the VM still no movement between workspaces but the value for /general/wrap_windows does change.

When listed the 2 configurations match for all intensive purposes (Booleans match / Font, buttons, pixels differ slightly). What could be over riding this config?

Thanks.

Oh, I'd include a copy of the VM config but don't know how you guys get the nice live text window with scroll bar see I'm also a 1 week old Linux user smile

Last edited by lasakro (2016-01-03 04:34:29)

MountainDewManiac · 2016-01-03 08:59:34

lasakro wrote:

\Oh, I'd include a copy of the VM config but don't know how you guys get the nice live text window with scroll bar

That's a pretty standard web-forum feature. Use CODE tags for that - just like you'd use B for bold, U for underline, and I for italic:

[CO DE]Monospace font, dead links, retained spacing[/CO DE] - You must remove the spaces that I added (to prohibit the CODE tag from becoming active), of course, and the tags need not be in upper-case. Anyway, that becomes:

Monospace font, dead links, retained spacing

when the spaces aren't added. Code tags are handy for posting any terminal output that you get (for example, if you have an issue and someone tells you to perform a command to get system information and post it here), for posting a link to another web page that you do not wish to be live for whatever reason (some folks want to see the actual http: link so they know right away on which website it is, or you might want to make it so they cannot easily go directly to that web page (which gives that website information about where - which website - the visitor came from, et cetera), or if you are trying to display information in a simple chart form and want your rows/columns to line up. There are probably other uses. Err... If you have a fetish for 1980s-era ASCII art, lol, and felt driven to post it here, that would be the way to ensure that your creation stays untainted by variable/proportional font wink .

BtW, whenever someone posts a message, and you do not understand how they achieved the effect that they did, you can always use the Quote message function to see how they did (just cancel the message / close the tab / go back to the previous page afterwards).

Regards,
MDM

Last edited by MountainDewManiac (2016-01-03 09:07:38)

lasakro · 2016-01-03 09:26:28

Thanks. My VM config:

xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -lv

/general/activate_action                 bring
/general/borderless_maximize             true
/general/box_move                        false
/general/box_resize                      false
/general/button_layout                   O|HMC
/general/button_offset                   0
/general/button_spacing                  0
/general/click_to_focus                  true
/general/cycle_apps_only                 false
/general/cycle_draw_frame                true
/general/cycle_hidden                    true
/general/cycle_minimum                   true
/general/cycle_preview                   true
/general/cycle_tabwin_mode               0
/general/cycle_workspaces                false
/general/double_click_action             maximize
/general/double_click_distance           5
/general/double_click_time               400
/general/easy_click                      Alt
/general/focus_delay                     250
/general/focus_hint                      true
/general/focus_new                       true
/general/frame_opacity                   100
/general/full_width_title                true
/general/horiz_scroll_opacity            false
/general/inactive_opacity                100
/general/maximized_offset                0
/general/mousewheel_rollup               true
/general/move_opacity                    100
/general/placement_mode                  center
/general/placement_ratio                 20
/general/popup_opacity                   100
/general/prevent_focus_stealing          false
/general/raise_delay                     250
/general/raise_on_click                  true
/general/raise_on_focus                  false
/general/raise_with_any_button           true
/general/repeat_urgent_blink             false
/general/resize_opacity                  100
/general/scroll_workspaces               true
/general/shadow_delta_height             0
/general/shadow_delta_width              0
/general/shadow_delta_x                  0
/general/shadow_delta_y                  -3
/general/shadow_opacity                  50
/general/show_app_icon                   false
/general/show_dock_shadow                false
/general/show_frame_shadow               true
/general/show_popup_shadow               true
/general/snap_resist                     false
/general/snap_to_border                  false
/general/snap_to_windows                 false
/general/snap_width                      10
/general/sync_to_vblank                  false
/general/theme                           Greybird
/general/tile_on_move                    false
/general/title_alignment                 center
/general/title_font                      Droid Sans Bold 9
/general/title_horizontal_offset         0
/general/titleless_maximize              false
/general/title_shadow_active             false
/general/title_shadow_inactive           false
/general/title_vertical_offset_active    0
/general/title_vertical_offset_inactive  0
/general/toggle_workspaces               false
/general/unredirect_overlays             true
/general/urgent_blink                    false
/general/use_compositing                 true
/general/workspace_count                 4
/general/workspace_names                 <<UNSUPPORTED>>
/general/wrap_cycle                      true
/general/wrap_layout                     true
/general/wrap_resistance                 10
/general/wrap_windows                    true
/general/wrap_workspaces                 false
/general/zoom_desktop                    true

ToZ · 2016-01-03 14:24:17

See this thread for a solution/workaround to this issue.

lasakro · 2016-01-03 15:51:55

Thanks and I did read that thread but where this differs is here I can't drag VM windows within the VM to other VM workspaces. In the reference solution they were unable to move the VM to other workspace on the host. I didn't realize it until I read the last post where he succeeded.

ToZ · 2016-01-03 17:19:03

You are correct. I mis-read the post.
I Just fired up my Virtualbox guest and see the same limitation. Its like the desktop edge is not being properly identified. You could create a bug report for this in xfwm4 to see what the developer has to say.

Would using keyboard shortcuts (Settings Manager >> Window Manager >> Keyboard) suffice for moving windows to different workspaces? I believe the defaults are Ctrl+Alt+End to move the currently active window to the next workspace or Ctrl+Alt+Home to move it to the previous workspace.

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