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abyss

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Registered: 2024-08-07

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How to disable window button toggle and hide?

Window buttons are used to display and hide application windows with a single click and a toggle state. What I want to is to have single mouse clicks on the window buttons only show and never hide their corresponding application windows. Is there a setting to do that? The toggle state is a tedious time waster for me.

As an aside, when I bring up first a LibreOffice presentation window (.odp) and word processor window (.odt) at the same time, the next click does not work as expected by the display. The word processor document has focus but the presentation window is shown. There seems to be a sync problem, but that is tangential to what I want to address at least in theory.

I am using Debian 12.7 with XFCE 4.18. Thanks for reading.

Tamaranch

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Registered: 2020-12-31

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Re: How to disable window button toggle and hide?

Window buttons are used to display and hide application windows with a single click and a toggle state. What I want to is to have single mouse clicks on the window buttons only show and never hide their corresponding application windows. Is there a setting to do that? The toggle state is a tedious time waster for me.

You can achieve this by setting "minimize" for the middle click action.

abyss

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Re: How to disable window button toggle and hide?

Thank you, Tamaranch. It works. I don't understand why it works, but it works. For the record, the middle click setting is accessed by the context menu over the panel (right click) > Panel > Panel Preferences… > "Items" tab > "Windows Buttons" entry (double click).

Tamaranch

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Re: How to disable window button toggle and hide?

Yes, it's a rather strange behavior that's not really documented, but it's always been there, as a sort of hidden feature... To access the plugin's settings, you can also do Ctrl+click (this one is documented: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/add-new-items ).

abyss

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Re: How to disable window button toggle and hide?

Good to know I did not overlook the obvious and that ctrl + left or right click gets the context menu with mouse-over as a nice workaround in some cases.