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Minimize a window by right-clicking the titlebar

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I don't know anyone who actually use the menu showed when you right click the titlebar of a window. Should be more useful to change this behavior to minimize windows quickly.

I use this since a lot of months and I think would be a good to have this behavior by default.

Sorry for my english.

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Danielle Foré

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User expects menu and suddenly window minimizes. Not a good idea to have this as default. It would cause confusion. ~grzesiek1e5

IMO not very much people use that menu, do you use it?
--luksi.reiku

I use it very often for moving windows around workspaces. You can always press the right-click, move your mouse a liiitle bit to the right and down, and then release your rightclick - the window minimalizes. ~michal-lepicki

I'd suggest setting the default double-click action for toolbars to minimise, rather than maximise/restore, as we already have designated button for the latter. Alas, developers upstream seem to have removed 'minimise' as a predefined action (though it can still be sett manually via gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences action-double-click-titlebar 'minimize') and gtk3 headerbars appear to have the double-click action hard-coded to maximise/restore and do not adhere to whatever is set at org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences action-double-click-titlebar. I'd certainly keep the titlebar right-click menu in place, although again this feature seems to have been dumbed down for gtk3 title/headerbars.
   ~ anubeon, 1st Sept 2015

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