When you hover the mouse pointer over the task manager and roll the wheel, it moves focus up/down through the open windows.

How can you bind these actions to hotkeys instead?

Cross-posting is discouraged in the forums because it splits the discussion and makes it harder to follow. The taskbar is related to Plasma Desktop, so I've merged kept the post in the Plasma forums.

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but usually Alt+Tab is used for switching between windows. You can configure the setting in System Settings -> Shortcuts and Gestures -> Global Keyboard Shortcuts.

Alt-tab has issues. MRU is only really useful when you're switching back and forth between two windows, and "stacking order" is mystifying.

Basically, I want to make handling windows in the taskbar like switching tabs in a modern browser.

ie, keyboard shortcuts to move to next, last, first, end, and move the tabs up and down in the sorting order order.

Also, an easy way to manually configure the title of windows (I can do that in Firefox through https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... firetitle/ )

(Also also, a way to select and operate on multiple windows at once, kinda like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... b-handler/ )

Combine that with a tweak to the "Present Windows" desktop effect to make it use *fuzzy* search on the window titles, and...

Well, I'll put it like this: Using alt-tab to switch between windows is like using a hammer to do carpenty. It's *sometimes* the perfect tool for the job, but when it *isn't* the right tool, it *really* isn't the right tool.

With the tool-set I described above (and I know all the *pieces* are there in KDE already), it'd be like having an actual sanely-supplied workshop. ^^;

Ah I see, so it's basically the Alt+tab behavior that you don't like. As far as I know there's no straightforward way to get what you want (seems complicated to "sync" the order of the taskbar and Alt+tab, since you could have multiple taskbars with different orders). Using the "stacking order" seems to be the closest to what you want.

I know you can change the title of windows using e.g. xdotools,

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xdotool search --name "Current title" set_window --name "New title"

but I'm not sure if there's an easy way to do it in KWin (I don't use KWin so that's partly why I'm having trouble answering your questions).

After getting that clarification I think you'll have the best chance to get an answer from the KWin people, so I'm moving this topic back to KWin.