https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438375
Bug ID: 438375
Summary: Don't switch to a different workspace when opening an
application
Product: kwin
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: natalie_clar...@yahoo.de
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Be on Workspace 1.
2. Have program A not open on Workspace 1 but open on Workspace 2.
3. Open program A, for example by clicking a launcher icon or opening a file.
OBSERVED RESULT
The desktop switches to Workspace 2.
As someone with a similar issue put it, "it's the equivalent of picking up an
object and being teleported to a different room".
EXPECTED RESULT
Program A opens on Workspace 1, i.e. where it was invoked .
This would either be a new window (if the application can handle multiple
instances) or with the existing window moved from WS2 to WS1 (if it is a
single-instance application).
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.12.9-arch1-1 (64-bit)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I find it quite disrupting to open a file on one workspace and suddenly end up
on a different one. I would assume that it is the expected behavior for the
average user to have the program appear on the workspace it is called from, or
at least to have the option to configure the behavior such.
I do have my task switcher filtered to the current desktop in the window
behavior settings. Focus stealing prevention doesn't seem to be the right
setting category either.
XFCE has this setting: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/98432/406769 "When
window raises itself, bring window to current workspace" This is exactly what I
would like to KDE.
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