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### 6. Advanced Window Manager Settings.

This screen allows you to configure various advanced Window Manager features.

In the Keyboard and Mouse settings:

- If Ctrl-Tab walks through desktops is selected, this key combination can be used to switch desktops.
- The Alt+Tab key combination is used to switch focus between different windows, making each window active in turn. If Alt-Tab is limited to current desktop is selected, only the open windows in the current desktop will be cycled through. Using the Alt-Tab mode list box, the action of the Alt-Tab key can be chosen to be in the graphical KDE style, or the "Classic" CDE style. The KDE-style Alt-Tab mode assures that using successive isolated Alt-Tab key combination will permit to switch between two alternate windows. Keeping the Alt key pressed and consecutively pressing Tab will allow to browse the list of available windows. The CDE-style Alt-Tab mode is different in the way isolated Alt-Tab presses act. Windows are always browsed successively.
- The Grab the Right Mouse Button setting is on by default. This option was introduced because a number of non-KDE X Window applications need to have complete control of the use of the right mouse button (for example Gimp). Deselect this option to allow non-KDE X Window applications to control the right mouse button.

The ``Filters'' section allows windows with specified Titles or belonging to specified Classes to be configured differently from the default window configuration.

- The window Title is its title, as displayed in the titlebar.
- The window Class is its ``X class name'', which is derived from the name of the program that is running in the window. Usually the X class name is the program name with the first letter capitalized (e.g., ```Emacs`'' is the X class name of a window running the ```emacs`'' program), except that if the program name begins with ``x'', the first two letters are usuallly capitalized (e.g.., ```XTerm`'' is the X class name of an ```xterm`'' window).

Windows that have Titles or belong to Classes that match a list item can have one of these special properties: they can be configured so these Windows will

- have only tiny decorations,
- have no decorations,
- never gain focus,
- start as ``Sticky'',
- be excluded from session management.

Separate lists are maintained for each ``special property'', and a given Title or Class may belong to more than one such list.

To add an entry to one of the lists, select the corresponding ``special property'' from the ``Windows will'' pull-down menu, and then enter a Title or Class in the appropriate ``if they match the following'' box, and click on the "+" button to add it to the list. Note that a partial match will select the property (e.g., if ```Kf`'' is entered in the Class list, all applications with names matching `kf*` will be selected to have the corresponding property).

To remove (or edit and replace) an entry, double-click on it to select it. (the selected item will be copied into the box for adding new entries). Click on the "-" button to remove it. You may also edit the copy in the new-entry box, and add it again with "+".

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