WayfireWM / WayfireWM/wayfire

There is a way to lose a window forever

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Description

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to the first workspace (desktop), while you have more than one.
  2. Open a window that's not too big.
  3. Throw it to the left while grabbing its title-bar, but release it before reaching the left side of the screen.

Now, if you've done 3 with enough speed (it isn't easy but quite possible), the window slides beyond the left side of the screen, and you have no way of finding it.

If you do 3 on desktop n > 1, it'll go to desktop n-1, and you'll find it there. But sliding leftward on the first desktop can result in its disappearance: it won't appear on the last desktop.

My enabled plugins
alpha, animate, autostart, command, decoration, expo, fast-switcher, grid, idle, move, place, resize, switcher, vswitch, window-rules, wobbly, wrot, zoom, cube, blur, workarounds, vswipe, wm-actions, wf-info

Wayfire version
0.7.4 (latest release at this moment)

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reproducing the leftward drag on the first workspace using Wayfire 0.7.4, then trace the workspace and window-movement handling involved in that gesture. Done means a window released before the screen edge remains reachable instead of disappearing from all workspaces.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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