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kuba-orlik

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Registered: 2016-10-03

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How to enable alt+tab during drag-and-drop?

I have a habit of switching windows using alt+tab when I drag-and-drop from one window to another, so I don't need to do that whole "minimize one window, put it on top of the other, and then drag and drop" dance.

I come from a GNOME background, where that was possible. How do I enable that in XFCE?

ToZ

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Re: How to enable alt+tab during drag-and-drop?

This works for me: Grab file. Alt+Tab to select correct window. Drag file a little to activate drop action. Drop.

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kuba-orlik

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Re: How to enable alt+tab during drag-and-drop?

I've just realized it does work, but not for all applications. For example, I can switch windows when dragging from Nemo, but can't do so when dragging from Firefox...

ToZ

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Re: How to enable alt+tab during drag-and-drop?

What are you dragging from firefox? Dragging links and images works here.

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kuba-orlik

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Re: How to enable alt+tab during drag-and-drop?

Dragging anything doesn't work. It seems something is off with my setup, then. What information can I share to shed some light on how our setups differ?

ToZ

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Re: How to enable alt+tab during drag-and-drop?

Which distro are you using?
Which version of Xfce?
Which version of Firefox?

Do you have another browser installed? Does drag and drop work from it?

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kuba-orlik

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Re: How to enable alt+tab during drag-and-drop?

I'm using Manjaro (arch)
Xfce 4.12
Firefox 49.0.1

Yes, I have Chromium installed, and surprisingly it allows to switch windows during alt+tab. So it seems this is an issue with Firefox

jesus2099

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Registered: 2020-05-04

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Re: How to enable alt+tab during drag-and-drop?

I confirm Alt+Tab still does not work when dragging something from Firefox 68.

But I would like to add some info for other people finding this topic when having the general issue of not being able to Alt+Tab when mouse dragging from all applications.

I could not even drag and drop from Thunar to Thunar.

It was because I installed Compiz to test one of its features.
Eventually I

1. Uninstalled its packages (compiz and compiz-core packages, then ran sudo apt autoremove)
2. Removed its folders from ~/.cache and ~/.config
3. Ran xfwm4 --replace & in a terminal
4. Rebooted.

And now it works.

Last edited by jesus2099 (2020-07-05 08:18:06)