Workspace Behavior Question

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 25 Sept 2021 at 22:55, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> > 20.04?
> Yes, as I said in my later message.

It's OK. That was pretty easy to guess. ;-)

> >>/I have 4 workspaces defined /
> > What desktop?
>
>   GNOME

Thought so, but I wanted to be sure.

> >>/with dual monitor spanning. /
> > Can you explain what this means, please?
>
> In Tweaks under Workspaces I clicked Workspaces span displays.
>
> I am running two separate monitors on my system and want the workspace
> to include both of them together.

Aha! OK then. I can't stand GNOME so I wasn't sure what this meant --
on Unity and Xfce, moving virtual desktops _always_ both screens,
which is what I expect and want.

> >>/NONE of the Firefox instances display workspace />/control options. /
> > What are "workspace control options"?
>
> If you left click on the title bar of a window the drop down menu
> includes a series of choices regarding workspaces:
>
> Always on Visible workspace
> Move to Workspace Down/Up
> -----------------
> Move to Monitor Right/Left
> ----------------------

Ahaaaaa! *Left* click though? Really? Not a right-click?

At least before CSD came in, GNOME 3 windows _could_ optionally
include a control menu -- that's the leftmost button in the titlebar
on MS Windows. You could enable this button in GNOME Tweaks in years
gone by, but now, with GNOME trying hard to eliminate title bars, I do
not know if it's still true.

Secondly, I am not sure if Firefox uses native title bars.

> > What extensions do you have in Firefox? Anything to affect windows,
> > title bars, etc? (E.g. the theme-customisation option to hide the
> > titlebar.)
>
> As far as I know none.

If you right-click on a blank part of Firefox' toolbar, you should get
a pop-up menu with a "Customize" option. Pick that, and a full-screen
UI customisation screen opens up. Down at the bottom left corner you
should find a checkbox for "title bar". As by default Firefox Quantum
shows its tabs right at the top, some people don't want the title bar.
I leave it on myself, but I have the tabs arranged vertically on the
left and I turn off the "native" tabs at the top.

(I tell you this merely to explain why I may not be seeing the
problems you see; I normally use Waterfox, not Firefox, which I only
use for Github and a couple of other incompatible sites; I don't use
GNOME; and I don't have tabs at the top in Firefox or Waterfox.)

If you enable the Firefox title bar there, possibly restarting Firefox
or the whole PC if necessary, do you then get the options to move the
window to other workspaces?

> Liam,
>
> Somehow the message you sent did not arrive; I do not have any filters
> defined and there was nothing in junk or trash. My apologies. I went to
> the archives and found your response and I am using that for my reply.
> I hope it is acceptable, under the conditions.
>
> As you noticed I included my responses to you questions in line. If you
> need further input let me know.

No problem at all. I am glad you could find it.

I was answering from my smartphone before, so I couldn't easily pull
up the old message, quote properly, etc.

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