window behavior I don't understand

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Hi Folks

I’m running 11.2 x86_64 and loving it
KDE desktop
One thing I don’t understand
Occasionally all open windows will shrink down small enough so they can display without overlapping. Like to let you pick which window you want to work on. I understand why I might want this behavior but I don’ understand what triggers it. It seems to happen randomly when I move the mouse towards the top left of the screen. Is this some feature I just don’t understand or is something acting flakey?

Vaio laptop with Intel Mobile 4 graphics
(I know this graphics card has “issues”)

Ideas?
Dave

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It sound’s like it the “Hot Corner” it’s set in the “System Setting’s/Desktop” so that when the mouse moves to a certain area of the screen it doe’s an action, in my case it’s “Present Windows” effect (sound’s like that’s what you found).

It’s actually a feature, normally used a little like “Alt+Tab” is. It’s an effect in the KDE Desktop using the KWin effect’s engine. If you would like to disable it go to System Setting’s/Desktop/All Effect’s look at the bottom of the page for “Present Windows” and Uncheck it and then hit apply that should stop the effect from happening.

Hope this explains it a little for you.

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hmm

that option was indeed enabled, but it should have only happened on ctl/F9 or ctl/F10. It was happening kinda randomly. Anyway, I turned it off

Thanks
Dave

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dmrobbin <dmrobbin@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> writes:

> Hi Folks
>
> I’m running 11.2 x86_64 and loving it
> KDE desktop
> One thing I don’t understand
> Occasionally all open windows will shrink down small enough so they can
> display without overlapping. Like to let you pick which window you want
> to work on. I understand why I might want this behavior but I don’
> understand what triggers it. It seems to happen randomly when I move the
> mouse towards the top left of the screen. Is this some feature I just
> don’t understand or is something acting flakey?
>
> Vaio laptop with Intel Mobile 4 graphics
> (I know this graphics card has “issues”)
>
> Ideas?
> Dave

Hi,

The feature you speak of is a way of selecting an open window, I think
moving the mouse pointer to the top left corner activates it by default,
but I kept setting it off by accident, so I disabled it.

I believe you can disable it from: ‘System settings’ -> ‘Desktop’ -> ‘Screen Edges’.

If not, it’s in the ‘desktop effects’ section of the same screen.

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Regards,
Barry Nichols