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Cannot jump between desktops via keyboard shortcuts while moving a window

Submitted by yaxu

Assigned to Olivier Fourdan @olivier

Link to original bug (#6168)

Description

I appreciate that windows can be moved between virtual desktops by dragging them off the side of the screen.

However, other window managers allow me to do the following:

  1. start moving a window, e.g. by dragging the title bar
  2. press the keyboard shortcut to switch straight to any other desktop (e.g. in my case, Alt-F3 to jump to desktop number 3)
  3. the window has moved to the desktop with me

This is a very quick way of moving windows around, which I've find myself using an awful lot, and miss now I've started using the (otherwise excellent) xfce.

While moving a window in xfce, the first press of the keyboard shortcut is ignored, and the second is honoured but the window is left behind on the old desktop. I wonder if anyone else thinks this is a bug, and worth fixing?

Thanks for your attention..

Version: 4.10.1

Edited by Yousuf Philips