Bug 483019

Summary:	Bindings to switch virtual desktops in Overview
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Kathrynne Winter <corviraptor>
Component:	effects-overview	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	6.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	NixOS
OS:	Linux
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Description Kathrynne Winter 2024-03-09 19:15:07 UTC

In GNOME, you can navigate between Virtual Desktops using the scroll wheel in the Activities Overview. It would be nice if you could do this in the KDE Overview Effect instead of having to click on the thumbnails at the top, and would also be nice if you could bind these actions to other keys as well, such as [alt + left_arrow] and [alt + right_arrow] for example. As far as I can tell, the arrow keys right now can only be used to navigate between individual windows, regardless of modifier key.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-03-11 23:00:44 UTC

The normal re-bindable virtual desktop switching shortcuts (Meta+Ctrl+arrows), do work in Overview, so let me dupe this to the bug report asking for switching via scrolling.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 453109 ***

Comment 2 Kathrynne Winter 2024-03-12 23:51:49 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> The normal re-bindable virtual desktop switching shortcuts
> (Meta+Ctrl+arrows), do work in Overview, so let me dupe this to the bug
> report asking for switching via scrolling.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 453109 ***

This is strange, when I'm in the Overview pressing [Meta+Ctrl+left/right] moves your window selection to the next window, same as using the arrow keys by themselves. The "Switch One Desktop" shortcuts *do* work when I'm not in the Overview, though.