Drag Tab to second screen not behaving as expected/wanted
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Hello all
I'm used to the way chrome works with this... Here's the scenario:
1/ Left hand screen has Vivaldi full screen with several tabs
2/ Right hand screen has another app running
3/ drag one of the Vivaldi Tabs to the Right hand screenMy expectation, as happens with Chrome, is that tab moves to the RH screen and is full screen (as it was when it was a tab on the Left screen.
What happens is the tab is not full screen and ignores that you want it on the Right screen but becomes a new floating window on the same Left screen. IF the app on the Right screen is not full screen, the same thing happens, the tab refuses to move to that same screen. IF there is no app at all on the Right screen, then you can drag drop the tab from the Left to the Right screen, but it will not be full screen, you have to do that manually.
So I guess there are two issues, the one is that it does not move to the other screen if there is an app open on that screen, and even if you drag drop it over the desktop on the Right screen... and the second issue is it does not maintain the full screen choice you had.
Thanks,
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@marktpalmos What happens here, depends on which application is active.
- If the application is Serif PagePlus (my DTP application), then it tries to import text. If I cancel the text import, the tab becomes a new non-maximised window on the right-hand monitor.
If you search (for Drag Tab Window), you will find several previous topics. I don't see this getting fixed any time soon, as it is hard to know what the desired behaviour is. What suits you, may not suit every user.
To be sure that you get what you want:
- Drop the tab on the source window to detach it as a new window
- Drag the window to the other monitor
- Double-click the title bar to maximise the window
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Hi, thanks for the response... but I don't agree with you that there cannot be a better default behaviour...
Surely the default should be what chrome does, not because chrome does it, but because if you are dragging a tab... why would you do that to (badly) import text to some other app? It seems pretty obvious that you'd be wanting simply to move the tab - to have it situated on the screen where you are putting it - you would not try to put it there if you did not want it there.
Dragging the tab over the existing Vivaldi window then requires another two steps to be able to put it on the other monitor and then to make it full screen... IMO the point of Vivaldi is being feature rich and capable. This bugs me every day and seems inexplicable.
Also, surely if only 40% of the other screen is covered by another app, and you drag the tab and let go over the blank (desktop) part of the destination screen, surely that should really be clear that you are simply moving the tab? I can't see how this could be argued that you might want something else to happen!
Tx
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@marktpalmos My most-used case is to drag a tab from one maximised window on one monitor to another maximised window on the other monitor. Why would you want to open another maximised window if you already have one open?
Right-click, move to, Window with (n) tabs, also works reliably.
I have never used Chrome, so I have no prior expectations of what the behaviour should be; I just look for the shortest route to achieve what I want.
If I wanted to drag a tab, and create a new window on the other monitor, I would just drop it onto the other Vivaldi window, then drag it off to detach it.
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I don't already have vivaldi on both screens, just on one... so I would like to put one tab on the second screen, full screen, which is why I drag it from the one monitor to the next. I do this many times a day as I use the full screen video on one screen to watch tennis while doing stuff on the other screen.
The RH click to move TAB to does not work if you do not already have vivaldi on the second screen to move TO.
I see you can take 3 or 4 steps to do what you want, but this should be VERY simple, default behaviour completed in one simple drag and drop movement... Why would it not be!?
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@marktpalmos said in Drag Tab to second screen not behaving as expected/wanted:
What happens is the tab is not full screen and ignores that you want it on the Right screen but becomes a new floating window on the same Left screen.
In my case, if I drop it to the right of the first screen, it opens on the second screen. Then double-click maximises it. Drag, then double-click is hardly any effort.
I see no reason to assume that the new window should be maximised. If it is, it will hide the Vivaldi window on the first screen or the application that you're working with on the second screen.
You could submit a bug report, it might get results sooner than a feature request.
Please see How to Report a Bug.
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if your first screen is full screen, you cannot drop it to the side of that screen, only onto the second screen.
When you do, one of two things happens. If there is no app running, it will be on that screen, but not full screen, despite your original tab being full screen... your choice being ignored...Alternatively if you have any app running on that second screen, vivialdi inexplicably ignores where you want to put the tab, and goes back to be a floating window on top of the original browser window... So it then obscures the tab you wanted to be on that side. Then you must manually move it to the correct monitor and then maximise.
Very clumsy!!!Thanks for the input. I will do a bug report. Cheers.
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@marktpalmos said in Drag Tab to second screen not behaving as expected/wanted:
Left hand screen has Vivaldi full screen with several tabs
I assume you mean maximized? When Vivaldi is in a full-screen state, the tab bar is hidden by default.
@marktpalmos said in Drag Tab to second screen not behaving as expected/wanted:
becomes a new floating window on the same Left screen.
I'm unable to reproduce that here. Although the new window is not maximized, it always appears on the screen on which it was dragged on (regardless of whether other apps are opened there). Tested in Vivaldi 5.1.2567.57 (64-bit on Windows 10 ver. 21H2, build ver. 19044.1586, with 3 screens).
@marktpalmos said in Drag Tab to second screen not behaving as expected/wanted:
the second issue is it does not maintain the full screen choice you had
It's a duplicate of Make the tab fullscreen/maximized when dragging from one monitor to another, so I decided to move your thread to support. There's also a similar request: Chrome-like Tab Dragging.
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Hi,
I have reported this as a bug, and the bug team say they can replicate the issue, and are working on new drag tab improvements which should overcome this problem.The part of my original post here which is irrelevant is whether or not there is an app running on the window you are dragging to. The new observation, 100% replicable, is whether you drag the tab from one monitor to another PAST THE HALF WAY POINT in the other monitor. If it is not past the 50% mark, the moved tab will ignore your desire to move it to the other monitor and will plop it on top of the same window where you dragged it from... making it an annoyance.
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@marktpalmos said in Drag Tab to second screen not behaving as expected/wanted:
if your first screen is full screen, you cannot drop it to the side of that screen, only onto the second screen.
That does not match my experience. If I drop the tab on the right one-third of the left-hand monitor, the new window is created on the right-hand monitor.
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@pesala said in Drag Tab to second screen not behaving as expected/wanted:
That does not match my experience. If I drop the tab on the right one-third of the left-hand monitor, the new window is created on the right-hand monitor.
That's exactly the problem.
If you drag to another monitor, the tab should be placed on that monitor. End of question! -
In case there is any confusion, I made a video for the bug team (who verified the issue BTW)
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OK, I think I know what's going on - the issue is replicable under very specific conditions only. When Vivaldi is placed on the right screen (not left, as originally stated in OP), the window is created on the wrong screen when dropping the tab on the right-hand side of the screen (for me it's only about 20%, so I guess YMMV - it might be due to the "restored" window size). When dropping a tab on a screen on the right, however, a new window is always created on the correct screen.
Tested in Vivaldi 5.1.2567.57 on two computers with 2 and 3 screens (both 64-bit on Windows 10 and Windows 11).
I'll update the bug report, as I see that our QA marked it as a duplicate of a similar (though probably unrelated) issue.
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I have a question about this not being fixed after all these years....: WTF ?
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@fdanner My answer is: WIR.
