{"id":672,"date":"2021-12-19T20:06:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T14:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2022-02-14T22:46:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T17:16:25","slug":"move-windows-between-displays-using-shortcuts-in-kde-plasma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/2021\/12\/19\/move-windows-between-displays-using-shortcuts-in-kde-plasma\/","title":{"rendered":"Move windows between displays using shortcuts in KDE Plasma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a dual-display setup for my desktop and I usually set up custom keyboard shortcuts in KDE Plasma to allow moving windows between the displays easily. However, the <code>KWin<\/code> shortcuts section of the Plasma System Settings app has multiple shortcuts named in a confusingly similar way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I am writing this post to just document what I did to get my custom <code>Ctrl +Alt + &lt;left\/right&gt; arrow<\/code> shortcut working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set up custom shortcuts for the <code>Window to Previous Screen<\/code> and the <code>Window to Next Screen<\/code> entries to get this working. As mentioned above, I use <code>Ctrl + Alt + &lt;left arrow><\/code> for the former and <code>Ctrl + Alt + &lt;right arrow><\/code> for the latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/KDE_Plasma_move_window_to_another_display-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"97\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/KDE_Plasma_move_window_to_another_display-1-1024x97.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/KDE_Plasma_move_window_to_another_display-1-1024x97.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/KDE_Plasma_move_window_to_another_display-1-300x28.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/KDE_Plasma_move_window_to_another_display-1-768x73.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/KDE_Plasma_move_window_to_another_display-1-1536x145.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/KDE_Plasma_move_window_to_another_display-1-1280x121.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/KDE_Plasma_move_window_to_another_display-1.png 1605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Screenshot showing the shortcut entries to change.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a dual-display setup for my desktop and I usually set up custom keyboard shortcuts in KDE Plasma to allow moving windows between the displays easily. However, the KWin shortcuts section of the Plasma System Settings app has multiple shortcuts named in a confusingly similar way. So I am writing this post to just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,293],"tags":[289,318,319],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foss","category-gnulinux","category-plasma","tag-kde-plasma","tag-kwin","tag-shortcuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}