I'd want to assign few window actions for single shortcut. In particular, I'd want to move current window to desktop N and switch to this desktop N.

How to?

I have tried to find appropriate dbus commands but have found one for the second step only:

qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin org.kde.KWin.setCurrentDesktop 1

How to move current window? Would it be possible, I can just call any commands I want in bash script and assign a shortcut for the script executing.

More common. Is there some kind of documentation related to advanced KDE windows manipulation from user's perspective?

OK, have found. Without any KDE-specifics:

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#!/bin/bash

wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -t $1
wmctrl -s $1


Here the script argument is just desktop number starting form 0. So you can, say, assign 'Win+1' shortcut to 'theScriptName 0'.

Nice trick. Seems it's pretty useful and powerful thing

There is a problem when no app's window is selected (i.e. desktop is selected). I'm on the way to resolve this issue. Will report later...

This is the next version. I'm not bash script writer. Any critics is appreciated.

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#!/bin/bash

IFS=$'\n'

win_id=$(xprop -root | grep '_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW(WINDOW)' | awk '{print $5}')
win_id_tail=$(echo $win_id | sed 's/^0x//')

windows=$(wmctrl -l)
win_dsk=""

for X in ${windows[@]} ; do
  win_dsk=$(echo "$X" | grep "$win_id_tail" | awk '{print $2}')
  if [[ $win_dsk ]] ; then
    break
  fi
done

if [[ -z "$win_dsk" ]] ; then
  #echo "current desktop not defined, skipping.."
  exit 0
fi

current_dsk=$(wmctrl -d | grep \* | awk '{print $1}')
if [[ "$1" == "$current_dsk" ]] ; then
    #echo "the same desktop, skipping.."
    exit 0
fi

if [[ $win_dsk == "-1" ]]  ; then
  #echo "sticky window, skipping.."
  exit 0
fi

#echo "switching to $1"
wmctrl -r :ACTIVE: -t $1
wmctrl -s $1