I'm a KDE fan, and mostly like the KDE4 changes (though I haven't yet found a use for the new 'desktop activity' model). I especially love the F4 trick in dolphin.

That said, the new-ish KDE4 feature of allowing you to move a window by clicking on an unused part of its background keeps getting in my way. I have never used it intentionally, and yet I end up triggering window moves multiple times per day. For example, when you click on a window to bring it to the front, it's easy to end up initiating a window move just because you happened to click on the background. Another silly (but annoying) case: try playing solitaire. If you accidentally click between cards when you go to drag a card, you end up dragging the window instead.

I imagine somebody out there likes this feature, and I also imagine it can be disabled. But I can't find where (I expected it to be in the mouse behavior settings, but nope). So, can I turn it off? How?

Thanks.

Start oxygen-settings and choose the preferred 'Windows' drag mode'

Cheerio

That was easy. Thanks.

Actually not all *that* easy. Your suggestion worked, of course, but oxygen-settings doesn't seem to be accessible from the 'configure your desktop' menu at all. Or if it is, it's very well hidden (who says 'security through obscurity' doesn't work...). It doesn't come up when you click 'Configure Decoration' under the Oxygen window decoration menu, or under the 'Configure' button on the Oxygen style dialog. So without you to tell me about the oxygen-settings command, I'd have been out of luck. And it's not too intuitive for a 'move window' setting to be under a theme configuration menu at all (though I'm guessing the 'oxygen' in oxygen-settings isn't referring to the Oxygen style or desktop theme at all). I would've expected this setting to be on the 'Moving' tab of the 'Configure Window Behavior' dialog.

Let me be the 10-thousandth to suggest that maybe KDE configurability has gotten out of hand, and the maybe the basic 'general user behavior configurations' should all be on a simpler menu and the rest in some kind of expert mode. My PCLOS system already has separate 'Common Appearance' and 'Workspace Appearance' sections, but that doesn't seem to help much.

oxy-settings is a tool for advanced users, that's the reason it is not overexposed.

Whether that is a good thing or not... it is not mine to say - you can suggest improvements to the Oxygen team.

These sorts of hidden kde settings should be at least documented somewhere, and later be made easily accessible.

ivan wrote:Start oxygen-settings and choose the preferred 'Windows' drag mode'

Worked for me too, many thanks !

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This has been driving me wild for months and I couldn't even figure out how I was triggering it.
Changed and this link bookmarked!
Edit: For my future reference - Run "oxygen-settings" from terminal. General > Windows drag mode: "Drag windows from titlebar only"

This is also reachable in System Settings, via Application Appearance > Style > Applications. Select "Configure" beside "Widget Style" - this will give you a window very similar to oxygen-settings.

Marking as Solved.

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