Chrome drag&drop tabs creates new i3 windows

asked 2013-10-11 16:53:32 +0000

BatmanAoD
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updated 2013-10-11 16:59:51 +0000

It appears that dragging and dropping tabs in Chrome always creates a new window, rather than allowing for tab-rearrangement. I suspect that this is a Chrome bug rather than an i3 bug because, according to Michael, i3 has no awareness of drag-and-drop, so I'm posting this as an issue on the Google product forums as well as here; I'd be thrilled, though, to discover that someone here knows how to fix this.

Note: I'm using i3 v. 4.0.1, but at the moment there is no more up-to-date package available for CentOS.

Edit: this happens regardless of whether the initial Chrome window is floating or tiled.

answered 2013-10-11 17:00:35 +0000

Michael
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Upgrade to a newer i3 version, that’ll fix it. Even upgrading to i3 v4.0.2 will be enough, as that version fixed it.

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I think you should be able to upgrade by just using a newer fedora RPM and EPEL, right?

Michael ( 2013-10-11 17:01:08 +0000 )edit

I did spend some time the other day yesterday trying to get the Fedora 19 repository configured on my machine, but attempting to install i3 from that repo failed because it wanted to upgrade ~1800 packages as dependencies and (inevitably) ran into conflicts. Time to bug the EPEL people, I guess...

BatmanAoD ( 2013-10-11 17:11:01 +0000 )edit

After a discussion with some EPEL folks and some futile attempts to install version 4.6 on my own machine, I've discovered that 4.0.2 is compatible with RH6, but later versions have all sorts of conflicts with core RH6 packages. Oh well, at least 4.0.2 works...

BatmanAoD ( 2013-10-17 17:07:45 +0000 )edit

I did not have this problem before but I am now experiencing it while using 4.7.2. (I started using i3 around version 4.5.1, and have been staying up to date with whatever's in the official Ubuntu apt repo since.)