KDE: Apps stacked on top of each other in Task Manager

In KDE, all App-Qube get stacked over each other when running. I am not able “pin” a program of a specific qube to the task manager, e.g I would like to have the firefox of my “personal” qube pinned to the task manager, but I cant figure out how.

When I open this firefox as only AppQube program, it’s the onlyone in the task manager, so I can:
→ right click it → “pin to task manager”
This then works, until the app qube gets rebootet. Then the shortcut is broken.

Can somebody poiint me to anything? Initially I wanted to ask this in KDE forum, but I wasn’t sure how to formulate the question there, as I think the problem is kind of qubes related, because the default stacks them the way they do and I’ve never seen that before.
I am sure this will be configurable somehow?

I use the Meta+$NUMBER shortcut extensively (before qubes, because of the stacking). This will open the apps in their, in the task manager, arranged order, like, from left to right: Terminal, Firefox, Thunderbird…
Will result in:

  • Meta+1 = open Terminal
  • Meta+2 = open Firefox
  • Meta+3 = open Thunderbird

Now in Qubes, that doesn’t work out of the box.

Ideally, I would like to have the following arrangement:
on:

  • Meta+1: open a small selector, that lets me pick one Terminal from all qubes where it is available
  • Meta+2: open a small selector, that lets me pick one Firefox from all qubes where it is available
  • aso…

Is there something like this already?

If not, does anybody know the terms, that I would have to ask for in the KDE forum?

Ok, for the first part, it’s actually pretty easy. I don’t know why I missed this:

The Task Manager “groups” all windows of the same app by default. As different AppQubes are all different windows of the same application, they all get grouped.

To turn this of:

  • right click in the Task Manager bar
  • click configure icons-only Task Manager...
  • Behavior
  • in “Group:” select do not group

From there on, all open apps from whatever app qube will be listed next to each other :+1:

For my optimal workflow described in the second half of the initial post, I haven’t found anything yet.

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