In systemsettings > window management > task switcher it would be a nice addition to expose the initial delay time before the taskswitcher-ui appears. Currently, i use kwriteconfig5 --file ~/.config/kwinrc --group TabBox --key DelayTime 200 qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigure But... i think there has already been a time when this setting was reachable using the UI (and it got lost in newer plasma versions?)
For what reason? What use case would this support?
well, the default setting was showing the taskswitcher icons too early, If i quickly alt-tab through the open apps, i just wanted the functionality, not visual feedback (with the icons) So, i'm happy to adjust the delayTime in kwinrc. I was only asking to also expose this setting in systemsettings? (so others can find this setting easily using a UI instead of rc-file modifications?)
Oh I see what you mean now. It's a hidden setting we don't have a GUI for! These are no good; they tend to bit-rot over time. We should either give it a GUI, or remove it.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/8759
Git commit 48656703ec417ae61238e3fc97f3302dc662f094 by Xaver Hugl, on behalf of Guilherme Soares. Committed on 10/02/2026 at 00:12. Pushed by zamundaaa into branch 'master'. kcms/tabbox: Add GUI option to configure DelayTime Currently, the DelayTime option (delay the appearance of the Task Switcher) can't be changed on the System Settings UI. This commit adds the option to the task switcher KCM, allowing users to configure the delay without using the terminal. M +3 -0 src/kcms/tabbox/kwintabboxsettings.kcfg M +65 -11 src/kcms/tabbox/main.ui https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/48656703ec417ae61238e3fc97f3302dc662f094