Firefox 66 Arrives - Blocks Auto-Playing Sounds, Hides Title Bar By Default For Linux

[George99]

I tried both but actually it seems moving a window with ALT doesn't work (anymore) with Gnome 3.

[carewolf]

In Order to move windows you use the (left) WINDOWS (pretty obvious, isn't it?) key and left mouse drag anywhere in the window.

Using alt this way predates the windows key.

[Mani]

I am actually surprised everyone jumped on debianxfce (do not feed the troll) and noone stumbled upon the single issue I have with CSDed Firefox: the right click menu does not offer any of the window manager controls, e.g. Move to different workspace. Gnome applications handle this gracefully...

[George99]

ALT is what you use to move the window when it doesn't have a border.

In Order to move windows you can also use the (left) WINDOWS (pretty obvious by the way) key and left mouse drag anywhere in the window.

[juno]

On KDE you use lose borders and shadows which looks terrible and makes the window hard to distinguish.

Why don't you keep Server side decorations and set up a kwin rule to disable the title bar for Firefox?

[ssokolow]

The issue is that Firefox says: I am NOT an application but an embedded window, so draw no borders! KWin then does what it is told and draws no borders.

I haven't had the update pushed to me yet. Can that be fixed using the "Force" option in "Window Rules > Appearance & Fixes > Window type" or "Window Rules > Appearance & Fixes > No titlebar and frame"?

(That "Window Rules" control module is one of the biggest reasons I use KWin as my window manager, to be honest... especially the "Remember" option.)

[treba]

It seems the problem with shadows missing on KDE is because Gnome is rendering shadows in a non-standard way, and Kwin developers don't wanna implement hacks in order to support CSD windows with shadows. Here's where they discuss it: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379637

Thanks for the link, very insightful. Another good reason to hope Wayland becomes the default, soon.

And, by that logic, I could just as easily say that "'People who are fed up with debianxfce' is the single largest poster on Phoronix".

Love it

[Britoid]

The issue is that Firefox says: I am NOT an application but an embedded window, so draw no borders! KWin then does what it is told and draws no borders.

But then KDE doesn't let it draw shadows.

[DanL]

Solid state drives wear when constantly compiling software.

Your keyboard wears from all the repetitive stupidity you type, but unfortunately, that doesn't stop you.

[carewolf]

Ctrl + M mutes sound in Firefox. ALT for the menu bar is somewhat a standard by Windows experience for most users.

ALT is what you use to move the window when it doesn't have a border.