Bug 447835

Summary: Overview: Show minimized/not show minimized windows option
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Alexandre Pereira <pereira.alex>
Component: effects-overviewAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: git master   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alexandre Pereira 2022-01-02 15:22:45 UTC
Have the possibility to not show minimized windows.
It would be great to have this option, and better yet, to have a shortcut that is possible to show minimized windows and another one that doesn't show minimized windows.

Possible Use case: (I use Meta as overview trigger key)
* When pressing Meta key shortcut, only show "non minimized windows"
* When pressing Meta+Shift key shortcut, show all windows

The same would be nice for edge corner triggering on kwin.


Below, the post on reddit I posted for context, as I will make a bug report for each item:
>I use "present windows" as my window switcher... (to me, its great!!).

>So I use one "present windows" shortcut to show "non minimized" windows on current desktop and another shortcut to show "non minimized" windows on all desktops.

>Also, "present windows" allow right button mouse click to close window, instead of middle one (really don't like it, middle mouse button usually is paste, not closing i think, at least to me).

>"present windows" also "unfocus/dims" panels, which overview does not. which would be nice if panels were "clickable" and working, but they aren't.

>"present windows" also allow for mouse button to "bring window to desktop", which fair, overview has the virtual desktop strip. But one has to switch to the other virtual desktop and then drag/drop the window to the final desktop i want the window to go to. So while it does allow the same, its much less efficient and cumbersome. (this would be solved if either desktops were scrollable while in effect or if all windows could be shown).

>so, tl;dr:

>configure mouse buttons (right click -> close/ middle click -> show on all desktops)

>show minimized or not (although this one is the least "must have")

>either dim panels, or better yet, make then usable while in the effect (making possible a latte-dock dash, like gnome overview)

>have key/mouse edge shortcuts for show current virtual desktop window/all virtual desktops windows
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-01-12 19:13:30 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 441627 ***