Hi Maintainer, If I create a rule for the autogrouping of any program (such as kwrite) and save it through the "systemettings / window management / window rules" they have no effect. Different instances of the same program are always displayed in a separate window and not in an additional tab (as you would expect). The rules that have been created are shown in the attached screenshot. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: reproducible at any time Actual Results: These types of window rules can be created but do not work. Kernel: 4.8.0 Distribution: Siduction (based on Debian SID) # dpkg -l|egrep '(kwin|systemsettings|plasma)' ii kde-plasma-desktop 5:91 amd64 KDE Plasma Desktop and minimal set of applications ii kdeplasma-addons-data 4:5.7.4-1 all locale files for kdeplasma-addons ii kwin-addons 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 additional desktop and window switchers for KWin ii kwin-common 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 KDE window manager, common files ii kwin-data 4:5.7.4-1 all KDE window manager data files ii kwin-style-breeze 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 KWin Breeze Style ii kwin-x11 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 KDE window manager, X11 version ii libkdeclarative5 4:4.14.23-1 amd64 declarative library for plasma ii libkf5plasma5:amd64 5.26.0-2 amd64 Plasma Runtime components ii libkf5plasmaquick5:amd64 5.26.0-2 amd64 Plasma Runtime components ii libkwin4-effect-builtins1 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 KDE window manager effect builtins library ii libkwineffects8 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 KDE window manager effects library ii libkwinglutils8 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 KDE window manager gl utils library ii libkwinxrenderutils8 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 KDE window manager render utils library ii libplasma-geolocation-interface5 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 Plasma Workspace for KF5 library ii libplasma3 4:4.14.23-1 amd64 Plasma Library for the KDE Platform ii plasma-dataengines-addons 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 additional data engines for Plasma ii plasma-desktop 4:5.7.4-2 amd64 Tools and widgets for the desktop ii plasma-desktop-data 4:5.7.4-2 all Tools and widgets for the desktop data files ii plasma-framework 5.26.0-2 amd64 Plasma Runtime components ii plasma-integration 5.7.4-1 amd64 Qt Platform Theme integration plugins for KDE Plasma ii plasma-pa 5.7.4-1 amd64 Plasma 5 Volume controller ii plasma-runners-addons 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 additional runners for Plasma 5 and Krunner ii plasma-scriptengine-javascript 4:16.08.0-1 amd64 JavaScript script engine for Plasma ii plasma-wallpapers-addons 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 additional wallpaper plugins for Plasma 5 ii plasma-widgets-addons 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 additional widgets for Plasma 5 ii plasma-workspace 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 Plasma Workspace for KF5 ii qml-module-org-kde-kwindowsystem:amd64 5.26.0-1 amd64 provides integration of QML and KDE frameworks - kwindowsystem ii systemsettings 4:5.7.4-1 amd64 System Settings interface
Created attachment 101488 [details] systemsettings dialog
Created attachment 101489 [details] systemsettings dialog
If you need more information about my system, I would like to post it here. regards Michael Singer
window grouping is currently not supported. We should hide the UI elements till we get support for it again.
Change to remove autogrouping: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2996
Git commit db95b96854e50b9182ea6e01a3806099ef378cb3 by Martin Gräßlin. Committed on 17/10/2016 at 06:02. Pushed by graesslin into branch 'Plasma/5.8'. [kwinrules] Hide all autogroup related widgets Summary: Window tabs which are required for autogroup are currently not supported in KWin. Thus exposing autogroup related window rules does not make any sense. This change hides the options again in the hope that we can bring the feature back in future. FIXED-IN: 5.8.2 Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin Tags: #kwin Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2996 M +13 -0 kcmkwin/kwinrules/ruleswidget.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kwin/db95b96854e50b9182ea6e01a3806099ef378cb3