KDE Moves Window Edge Beyond Screen Border

With KDE 4.11, a new annoying feature was added: The window manager now moves a window beyond the screen edge. The original idea was to make the scroll bar easily accessible.

But a lot of people didn’t like this for various reasons.

My reason is that I use clicking on the window border to move a window to the front. By careful arrangement of the windows on my second monitor, I can easily switch between 5 windows by moving them against the screen edge: That way, I can use the mile high menu bar trick to position the mouse and one click to bring the window to the front (and no, I can’t use the usual click to front behavior; I know much better than the computer when I want to change the stacking order and when not).

With the window border hidden beyond the screen edge, this wasn’t possible anymore.

Here is a script that solved the issue for me: Snap to Deco 1.1

Installation Instructions:

Once downloaded, the script needs to be installed via

> plasmapkg -t kwinscript -i filename.kwinscript

which unpacks and copies files to ~/.kde4/share/apps/kwin/scripts/ but doesn’t activate them. In order to activate, use the scripts KCM (KConfig Module) graphical interface:

> kcmshell4 kwinscripts

and tick the required script.

One Response to KDE Moves Window Edge Beyond Screen Border

  1. Thank you for this information! I can’t understand why they made this change without any way to revert to the old expected behavior.

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