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Cannot drag Firefox tabs between *workspaces* (between windows on the same workspace it works fine)

Open alexpdp7 opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Hi,

I'm on develop 7331b44807f94d8a2d6adac6e75b0e32b2ad8caf , and I cannot drag Firefox tabs between windows in different workspaces (i.e. from one display to another).

I can drag tabs from Firefox within the same display.

I'm on RHEL 8.5, Gnome 3.32.2.

Cheers,

Álex

p.s.: I also have some cosmetic issues which are just small papercuts. I can report them in separate issues if there's interest- happy to debug, etc. (when unlocking my screen, I have tons of PaperWM notification errors, after suspending my workspaces "switch" displays, some small bugs). However I realize that I'm running an ancient Gnome version and it's probably not worth fixing them- I'm just reporting this one because it does affect my workflow, although I can live with it and stick with PaperWM because otherwise it's AWESOME.

alexpdp7 avatar Feb 25 '22 10:02 alexpdp7

Firefox seems to do some funky things with the window framing. Personally I have trouble when it gets onto the scratch layer and there seems to be no way to get it off the scratch layer-using the mouse. Keyboard shortcuts are your friend... The keyboard shortcut GUI+CTL+ESC does the trick to toggle the window on and off the scratch layer.

The keyboard shortcut you seek, to shift it to another workspace, is probably GUI+SHIFT+arrowkey.

johnmee avatar Apr 19 '22 23:04 johnmee

Yeah, after using this consistently for a good while, it seems that most issues seem to be Firefox-specific. I have the same recurrent issues you have with Firefox windows doing odd things- I have some issues using the scratch shortcuts, but the "window menu" (alt+space) seems to work pretty well for unborking things.

I use win+shift+[ctrl]+arrows to move between displays and carry windows around. However, normally I end up "moving" tabs by copying and pasting URLs. That's a decent workaround, but I dunno- maybe this issue can remain open- or at least maybe add some "known issues" to the main README? Something like:

Firefox seems to misbehave under PaperWM. The following issues are known:

  • Tabs cannot be dragged between Firefox windows on different displays
  • Firefox windows can move spontaneously into the scratch layer. Use the window menu (AltSpace) or SuperCtrlEscape to fix.

alexpdp7 avatar Apr 20 '22 07:04 alexpdp7

Closing as this is fixed in #574.

jtaala avatar Aug 10 '23 23:08 jtaala