KDE Control Center - KWM: Advanced Window Manager Settings.
Description: KDE Control Center - KWM
Keywords: KDE,KControl,Window manager,KWM,Windows,Titlebar

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### 6. Advanced Window Manager Settings.

This screen allows you to configure various advanced Window Manager features.

In the Keyboard and Mouse settings:

- If Ctrl-Tab walks through desktops is selected, this key combination can be used to switch desktops.
- The Alt+Tab key combination is used to switch focus between different windows, making each window active in turn. If Alt-Tab is limited to current desktop is selected, only the open windows in the current desktop will be cycled through. Using the Alt-Tab mode list box, the action of the Alt-Tab key can be chosen to be in the graphical KDE style, or the "Classic" CDE style. The KDE-style Alt-Tab mode assures that using successive isolated Alt-Tab key combination will permit to switch between two alternate windows. Keeping the Alt key pressed and consecutively pressing Tab will allow to browse the list of available windows. The CDE-style Alt-Tab mode is different in the way isolated Alt-Tab presses act. Windows are always browsed successively.
- The Grab the Right Mouse Button setting is on by default. This option was introduced because a number of non-KDE X Window applications need to have complete control on the use of the right mouse button (for example Gimp). Deselect this option to allow non-KDE X Window applications to control the right mouse button.

The Filters settings offer the ability to allow windows with particular window titles or X class names to be configured differently from the default window configuration.

Windows with Titles or X class name that match a list item can have one of these special properties: they can be configured so they

- get only tiny decorations
- get no decorations
- never get focus
- start as Sticky
- are excluded from session management

To make an entry in the list, enter a Title or Class in the appropriate box, and click on the "+" button. Then click on it to highlight it, and select a special property.

To remove an entry, double-click on it to select it, then press the "-" button.

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