Kwin: gimp window management

piet85 · #1 6th April 2012, 02:56 PM

Hello,
I switched from gnome to KDE because I don't like gnome 3. I always used gnome with compiz, in KDE I would like to use its native compositing window manager kwin. I think it works pretty well, the only thing I miss is to create window groups. When working with gimp I often created a group with the "group and tab" plugin, so when I selected one of the gimp windows, the other two windows also appeared in forground. In kwin I haven't found any feature to do this. That wouldn't be any problem because in gimp there was recently added a feature to handle the other two windows as utility windows. That works well with compiz, if you set this feature and select one of the three windows they all will appear, but it doesn't do so with kwin? The utility windows are recognized by kwin, if you select this option only the main window appears in the "present windows" switcher, but if you activate it, only the main window will appear in foreground.
Is there any way to configure kwin the way I want, to bring those three gimp windows on top with just one click?

pete_1967 · #2 6th April 2012, 04:31 PM

You can use activities to have specific set of programs to run. You can also group windows by right-clicking its title bar and selecting "Move window to group".

piet85 · #3 6th April 2012, 06:04 PM

Activities would work, but I think it's a bit inconveniant, it would be even more simple to put it to another workspace.
The "move window to group" option I don't have in my titlebar, is there some way to get it?

pete_1967 · #4 6th April 2012, 09:10 PM

It's a default KDE option. Not sure if GTK programs honour it by default so you can try setting widget style to oxygen-gtk or something in Application Appearance settings.

piet85 · #5 6th April 2012, 10:36 PM

I got the reason why this option didn't appear: I use smaragd window decorations, then this option isn't available. I switched to the standard theme and tried it, but this is not what I am looking for. This function tabs the windows but I just want to group them. All windows should stay like they are, I just want to click on one window and bring all three of them to foreground.