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FancyZones : Firefox pulled out tabs and openshot child windows are not being treated as elligible windows by FancyZones

Open shodanx2 opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.66

Installation method

GitHub

Running as admin

No

Area(s) with issue?

FancyZones

Steps to reproduce

Pull out a tab our of a firefox window, try to activate FancyZone, it does not activate, whether using shift or a non-primary mouse button.

In OpenShot, take a tool panel and turn it into a child window, then try to drag it to a FancyZone, unfortunately, doesn't work, FancyZones doesn't activate on right click or shift as it should.

FancyZones does not consider these to be windows

✔️ Expected Behavior

Same behaviour as any other window

❌ Actual Behavior

Nothing happens, same as if FancyZones was not installed.

I have "allow child window snapping" enabled.

Also, another minor annoyance is that, pulled out tabs create new window which FancyZone will move to "last known zone" As per "Move newly created windows to their last known zone", so wherever you drop that tab, it will end up to the last created Firefox window, so I have to disable "Move newly created...." functionality for now.

Other Software

Firefox 108.0.2 OpenShot 3.0.0

shodanx2 avatar Jan 07 '23 23:01 shodanx2

It might makes sense to blacklist/whitelist applications with regards to the "move to last known zone" option.

I have noticed that firefox will constantly get put back in the "last known zone" every time I do something that will create a new window.

I think I would rather have "last known zone" simply not apply to firefox entirely at this point.

shodanx2 avatar May 27 '23 20:05 shodanx2