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twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

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[SOLVED] KDE 5 krunner's target display when launching applications

Is there an option or trick to get Krunner to launch the requested app on the display/monitor that the krunner prompt itself is at? I use two monitors and what I'd like to be able to do is when I Alt-F2 on my primary display, that the app I open will show on the primary display and when I Alt-F2 on my secondary display that the app launches on the secondary display. Is there a configuration option or trick for this?

Last edited by twelveeighty (2015-06-10 21:40:34)

Buddlespit

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Registered: 2014-02-07

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE 5 krunner's target display when launching applications

System Settings-->Window Management-->Window Behavior-->Focus tab, check both 'Separate screen focus' and 'Active screen follows mouse'. Log out, log back in.

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twelveeighty

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE 5 krunner's target display when launching applications

Awesome! Thanks for the tip.

By the way, I got the behavior I wanted by just selecting "Active screen follows mouse" and leaving "Separate screen focus" unchecked. After reading up on the two options I found several complaints that if you have "Separate screen focus" enabled, the Alt-Tab doesn't list all apps, only the ones on the screen that's in focus, so I tried it with only "Active screen follows mouse" and the launching behavior is now what I want.