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bushblade

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move to workspace keyboard shortcuts not working [solved]

Hi, I am just moving over from Mint Cinnamon to Manjaro XFCE and I'm having a problem getting the move window to workspace keybindings to work.

It is in my window manager settings as ctrl+alt+1, ctrl+alt+2 etc. to move focused window to workspace 1,2 etc. But I can't get it to work. I tried changing the keybindings but no joy there. I know I can right click on a window title bar and choose move to workspace, but I would really like the keybindings to work.

I joined the forums to hopefully solve it, thanks in advance.

Last edited by bushblade (2016-09-23 12:57:43)

ToZ

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Re: move to workspace keyboard shortcuts not working [solved]

Hello and welcome.

I just tried the keyboard shortcuts and they didn't work for me either until I re-created them. Now they do. Try re-creating them again from Settings Manager > Window Manager > Keyboard tab and set the to Ctrl+Alt+NUM where NUM is 1, 2, 3, etc.

Also, post back the results of:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -lv | grep move_window

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bushblade

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Re: move to workspace keyboard shortcuts not working [solved]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I tried re-creating them as you suggested and it worked! That is very odd tough as I did try that yesterday and tried different key combinations and that did not work.

Here is the output you requested

~]$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -lv | grep move_window
/xfwm4/custom/<Alt><Control>End            move_window_next_workspace_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Alt><Control>Home           move_window_prev_workspace_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Alt>F7                      move_window_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Control><Shift><Alt>Left    move_window_left_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Control><Shift><Alt>Right   move_window_right_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Control><Shift><Alt>Up      move_window_up_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Primary><Alt>1              move_window_workspace_1_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Primary><Alt>2              move_window_workspace_2_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Primary><Alt>3              move_window_workspace_3_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Primary><Alt>4              move_window_workspace_4_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Primary><Alt>5              move_window_workspace_5_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Primary><Alt>6              move_window_workspace_6_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Primary><Alt>7              move_window_workspace_7_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Primary><Alt>8              move_window_workspace_8_key
/xfwm4/custom/<Primary><Alt>9              move_window_workspace_9_key
/xfwm4/default/<Alt>F7                     move_window_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>End           move_window_next_workspace_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>Home          move_window_prev_workspace_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>KP_1          move_window_workspace_1_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>KP_2          move_window_workspace_2_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>KP_3          move_window_workspace_3_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>KP_4          move_window_workspace_4_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>KP_5          move_window_workspace_5_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>KP_6          move_window_workspace_6_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>KP_7          move_window_workspace_7_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>KP_8          move_window_workspace_8_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>KP_9          move_window_workspace_9_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Shift><Alt>Left   move_window_left_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Shift><Alt>Right  move_window_right_key
/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Shift><Alt>Up     move_window_up_key

Thanks again.

ToZ

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Re: move to workspace keyboard shortcuts not working [solved]

I see it now. The defaults are "/xfwm4/default/<Primary><Alt>KP_1"
where the newly-created custom one is "/xfwm4/custom/<Primary><Alt>1".

So the default one uses KP_1 (keypad 1).

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bushblade

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Re: move to workspace keyboard shortcuts not working [solved]

Ah yes, thanks for pointing it out, much appreciated.