Cant move window to next desktop by keyboard shortcuts.

[linchangyi]

After activating this script, I cant move window to next desktop by keyboard shortcuts.

[maurges]

That's odd. Can you give me the script logs? This is a somewhat hard procedure, here are the steps:

1. Deactivate the script and restart kwin (relogin)
2. Download the script sources; you can just clone this repo
3. Open kwin console: open krunner (alt+f2 or alt+space by default) and run wm console
4. In console click "open" and navigate to the script directory. Go to contents/code and load main.js
5. Try doing some actions, the more the better: moving between desktops by applet or by hotkeys, moving windows by right-clicking or by hotkeys
6. Copy everything from the output box and send it as a reply to this issue

[linchangyi]

I opened two window: Chrome and wm console. Every operation below was on the wm console window.

• Move between desktops by hotkeys(Switch to next desktop then switch back), everything perfect. logs as below:

Not empty: 桌面外壳脚本控制台 — Plasma is there
Not empty: 桌面外壳脚本控制台 — Plasma is there

• Move window to next desktop by right-clicking then move back, everything perfect. logs as below:

Client 桌面外壳脚本控制台 — Plasma just moved
 to desktop number 2 out of 2
added a desktop
Not empty: Cant move window to next desktop by keyboard shortcuts. · Issue #2 · d86leader/dynamic_workspaces - Google Chrome is there
Not empty: 桌面外壳脚本控制台 — Plasma is there
deleted last desktop
Client 桌面外壳脚本控制台 — Plasma just moved
 to desktop number 1 out of 3

• Move window to next desktop by hotkeys, nothing happend but the window lose focus. logs as below:

deleted last desktop
Client 桌面外壳脚本控制台 — Plasma just moved
 to desktop number 1 out of 3
Not empty: 桌面外壳脚本控制台 — Plasma is there
Client 桌面外壳脚本控制台 — Plasma just moved
 to desktop number 2 out of 2
added a desktop
Not empty: 桌面外壳脚本控制台 — Plasma is there
Not empty: 桌面外壳脚本控制台 — Plasma is there

• Move window to next desktop by right-clicking, then move window to previous desktop by hotkeys, everything perfect. logs as below:

Client 桌面外壳脚本控制台 — Plasma just moved
 to desktop number 2 out of 2
added a desktop
Not empty: Cant move window to next desktop by keyboard shortcuts. · Issue #2 · d86leader/dynamic_workspaces - Google Chrome is there
deleted last desktop
Client 桌面外壳脚本控制台 — Plasma just moved
 to desktop number 1 out of 3
Not empty: 桌面外壳脚本控制台 — Plasma is there

[maurges]

That's really strange. I'm sorry, but I don't think there's anything I can do: KDE API can just do weird things sometimes. I've had some similar strange bugs on my machine, and I fixed them by just rewriting everything in another architecture and it just magically started to work.
If you want, you can try an older version before major rewrite. It's buggy and the code is bad and it might not work; here's the commit link: 636b231

[fabianski7]

Using plasma and kwin 5.20.90, I can move the windows through the default shortcut (shitft+ctrl+super+➡️) to the next workspace without any problems.

[maurges]

@fabianski7 me too, although I use non-default shortcuts. For me it's been working since plasma 5.9 to 5.20. So this is a really weird issue

[AndydeCleyre]

I use a shortcut to move the current window to the next desktop, in a single direction, wrapping around as needed. With this script, though, the wrapping does not happen, as a new trailing desktop keeps getting generated.

So I use a script to wrap around when then window is starting on the penultimate desktop, as long as the window was the only one on the starting desktop.

Sharing in case it's useful to someone here:

window-next-desktop.zsh:

#!/bin/zsh -e

# -- Dependencies --
# - wmctrl
# - qdbus6

kwin-do () { qdbus6 org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kwin invokeShortcut $1 }

# With a dynamic virtual desktop script,
# there will always be an empty trailing desktop.
# If it's next, it's our destination virtual desktop, *unless*
# this window was already
# the only one in its origin virtual desktop

desktop_count=$(qdbus6 org.kde.KWin /VirtualDesktopManager count)
desktop_current=$(qdbus6 org.kde.KWin /KWin currentDesktop)
if (( desktop_current + 1 == desktop_count )) {
  windows=(${(f)"$(wmctrl -l)"})
  windows=(${(*M)windows:#[^ ]## ##$((desktop_current - 1)) *})
  if (( $#windows == 1 )) {
    kwin-do 'Window to Desktop 1'
    wmctrl -s 0
    return
  }
}
kwin-do 'Window to Next Desktop'