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I'm using the Mate desktop, with multiple workspaces. In Mate, I can right-click on the title bar of any window and move the window to another workspace (a context menu with options "Move to Workspace Left", "Move to Workspace Right", "Move to Another Workspace").

However, this doesn't work for Firefox windows. I can't get to this context menu by right-clicking on the top bar of a Firefox window (i.e., the tab bar). It doesn't matter where I click; even if I click on the empty space or click on or near the buttons for minimizing/maximizing/closing the window, I can't open this context menu. It looks like Firefox windows don't have anything that X considers a title bar: if I understand correctly, the top bar on Firefox windows (the "tab bar") doesn't seem to be considered a title bar by X Windows.

Is there some mouse combination I can use to move a Firefox window among workspaces, in Mate?

(I know that Firefox lets me optionally enable a separate title bar, but I don't want to enable a separate Firefox title bar just for this purpose, as the title bar is just wasted space with no useful information beyond what is already present on the tab bar.)

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You can set up a keyboard shortcut for "Activate window menu", this also works for such windows without a title bar.

Configure it in the shortcuts settings GUI or directly set it using dconf, e.g. to use Alt+F3:

dconf write /org/mate/marco/window-keybindings/activate-window-menu '<Alt>F3'

(Or define a specific shortcut for "move to workspace to the left" or "move to workspace 3" if you only need that all the time.)

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Install the 'Window List' widget in the panel. It shows one icon per window that is open. Then, you can move Firefox to any other workspace by right-clicking on the icon for Firefox in the window list widget and selecting "Move to another Workspace".

I have the same issue with other browsers, e.g., Vivaldi, and this works for them as well.

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