Re: [kde] global disable maximize windows by dragging to top of screen?
On Saturday, 2013-09-14, Stephen Dowdy wrote: > Felix Miata wrote, On 09/14/2013 09:29 AM: > > Is there a way to make drag to top of screen mean *only* drag to top of > > screen and nothing more, systemwide for all users? If so, how? > > Felix, > > Here's the FAQ entry i put together for my users on "ElectricBorders" > > Note that this is directed at users for individual control, however, you > can put these kwriteconfig entries against a GLOBAL 'kwinrc' file. > > for my system the KDE4 config search path is: > dowdy@neptune$ kde4-config --path config > > /home/dowdy/.kde/share/config/:/etc/kde4/:/usr/share/kde4/config/:/usr/sha > re/desktop-base/profiles/kde-profile/share/config/ > > So, if you put these entries into /etc/kde4/kwinrc or > /usr/share/kde4/config/kwinrc or > /usr/share/desktop-base/profiles/kde-profile/share/config/kwinrc It should > affect all users, UNLESS they have overrides in their personal > ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc One can, however, make values unoverridable by marking them as immutable. This is done by adding [$i] to the key in one of the configs in the search path after the user's local config. E.g. if you hae /etc/kde4/kwinrc like in the above list with [Windows] ElectricBorderMaximize=false this would make the key unoverridable for user configs ElectricBorderMaximize[$i]=false The immutable modifier can also be applied to whole groups, e.g. [Windows][$i] See http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/Kiosk/Introduction Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
Re: [kde] global disable maximize windows by dragging to top of screen?
Felix Miata wrote, On 09/14/2013 09:29 AM:
> Is there a way to make drag to top of screen mean *only* drag to top of
> screen and nothing more, systemwide for all users? If so, how?
Felix,
Here's the FAQ entry i put together for my users on "ElectricBorders"
Note that this is directed at users for individual control, however, you can
put these
kwriteconfig entries against a GLOBAL 'kwinrc' file.
for my system the KDE4 config search path is:
dowdy@neptune$ kde4-config --path config
/home/dowdy/.kde/share/config/:/etc/kde4/:/usr/share/kde4/config/:/usr/share/desktop-base/profiles/kde-profile/share/config/
So, if you put these entries into /etc/kde4/kwinrc or
/usr/share/kde4/config/kwinrc or
/usr/share/desktop-base/profiles/kde-profile/share/config/kwinrc
It should affect all users, UNLESS they have overrides in their personal
~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc
--stephen
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Q: When i move a window and hit the screen edge the window maximizes and this
gets very frustrating.
A: This is like the Windows 7 "Aero desktop" edge bumping. It's called
"ElectricBorders" in KDE4.
There are two Aero-like settings, one for when you hit the top edge of the
screen, called:
"Maximize windows by dragging them to the top of the screen"
The other allows you to "tile" two windows filling the screen, each taking half
the screen. This is called:
"Tile windows by dragging them to the side of the screen"
To change the settings...
To open the GUI interface to 'kwinscreenedges', do either:
CLI:kcmshell4 kwinscreenedges
UI: System Settings->Desktop->Screen Edges
Disabling: "Maximize windows by dragging them to the top of the screen"
(do one of these)
UI: System Settings->Desktop->Screen Edges->Window-Management->Maximize
windows by dragging them to the top of the screen
CLI:kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Windows --key
ElectricBorderMaximize false
Disabling: "Tile windows by dragging them to the side of the screen"
(do one of these)
UI: System Settings->Desktop->Screen Edges->Window-Management->Tile
windows by dragging them to the side of the screen
CLI:kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Windows --key
ElectricBorderTiling false
Additionally, there are other window edge hot actions available for each of the
8 screen corners and edges when simply bumping the mouse (not moving a window)
against that corner or edge.
Switch desktop on edge: "Disabled"
CLI:kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Windows --key ElectricBorders 0
Switch desktop on edge: "Only When Moving Windows"
CLI:kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Windows --key ElectricBorders 1
Switch desktop on edge: "Always Enabled"
CLI:kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group Windows --key ElectricBorders 2
For example, to set the topleft corner to "Show Dashboard"
CLI:kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group ElectricBorders --key TopLeft
Dashboard
For example, to set the bottomleft corner to "Show Desktop"
CLI:kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group ElectricBorders --key BottomLeft
ShowDesktop
To disable all the corner and edge electric borders, use this POSIX Shell code:
for spot in Bottom BottomLeft BottomRight Left Right Top TopLeft TopRight;
do
kwriteconfig --file kwinrc --group ElectricBorders --key ${spot} None
done
FYI: Border enums:
0 Top Center
1 Top Right
2 Right Center
3 Bottom Right
4 Bottom Center
5 Bottom Left
6 Left Center
7 Top Left
8 ???
9 NONE
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[kde] global disable maximize windows by dragging to top of screen?
Is there a way to make drag to top of screen mean *only* drag to top of screen and nothing more, systemwide for all users? If so, how? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
