I would like to move windows around by clicking anywhere in them with a mousebutton. I know I can hold ALT+Mouse1 to move them around (or, obviously, click on the titlebar).

Currently I use fluxbox, and I can just do this:
OnWindow Mouse9 :StartMoving

I'd really like to use KDE, but this is crucial to me.

Any hope for me? (I've also tried using btnx to map button9 to ALT+Mouse1, but it just seems to pass the ALT through to the app beneath it. For example, it highlights text in 'box' mode in a terminal, instead of moving the entire window)

Unfortunately, this wish was filed back in 2001
Apparently, it's a limitation in Qt.

https://bugs.kde.org/34362

The last comment says that there's a workaround with xbindkeys, but I haven't tried it.

Thank you for the reply!

That's a big dissapointment for me.
It's difficult for me to grab at titlebars all the time (my hands are shakey) unless they're giant, it's difficult for me to press a key and use the mouse at the same time. (sticky keys helps, thank god)

It doesn't make sense that it's a limitation of Qt, though.

In fluxbox, I can run a Qt app, and move the window around with one of the extra button on my mice just fine. No problems. It seems to me to just be a very simple limitation in kwin that they have no plans to ever fix.

As I mentioned, also, I can bind my mouse buttons to key events, but for whatever reason, having it map ALT+Mouse1 to a button makes the keypress slip past the window-move situation and just passes an ALT+Click to the app. If it IS a limitation in Qt (despite my example of how I doubt it is) they've had 8 years to do something about it.

Accessibility is important to me.

You might want to post that comment to the bug. After all, the more people complain, the more likely someone is going to come forward with a fix, especially considering that you have a genuine reason for why you need this feature.

Note that the reason that this is only a problem in KDE is because KDE uses KWin as its window manager and KWin is written in Qt.

@smedvek

That's a big dissapointment for me.
It's difficult for me to grab at titlebars all the time (my hands are shakey) unless they're giant, it's difficult for me to press a key and use the mouse at the same time. (sticky keys helps, thank god)

You might find it helpful to right-click on the titlebar and select Configure Window Behaviour. The go to the Move section and experiment with Snap Zones

In the bespin style's configuration pannel, there's a "Allow easy window dragging by clicking empty spaces" option.