https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/workaround-alt-tab-while-dragging-an-email-on-linux-x11/m-p/145461#M59589 <P>On Linux with X11, Alt+Tab doesn't work while dragging an email out of Thunderbird, because GTK grabs the keyboard during the drag and the window manager never sees the key press.</P><P>I wrote a small open-source helper that works around this: it listens to raw XInput2 events and switches to the next window when Alt+Tab is pressed during a drag. In case it's useful to others:</P><P><A href="https://github.com/Codatus/dragtab" target="_blank">https://github.com/Codatus/dragtab</A></P><P>It would of course be nicer if this worked out of the box – as far as I can tell it's GTK's drag-and-drop behaviour on X11 rather than something specific to Thunderbird.</P> Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:52:18 GMT Codatus 2026-10-30T10:52:18Z https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/workaround-alt-tab-while-dragging-an-email-on-linux-x11/m-p/145461#M59589 <P>On Linux with X11, Alt+Tab doesn't work while dragging an email out of Thunderbird, because GTK grabs the keyboard during the drag and the window manager never sees the key press.</P><P>I wrote a small open-source helper that works around this: it listens to raw XInput2 events and switches to the next window when Alt+Tab is pressed during a drag. In case it's useful to others:</P><P><A href="https://github.com/Codatus/dragtab" target="_blank">https://github.com/Codatus/dragtab</A></P><P>It would of course be nicer if this worked out of the box – as far as I can tell it's GTK's drag-and-drop behaviour on X11 rather than something specific to Thunderbird.</P> Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:52:18 GMT https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/workaround-alt-tab-while-dragging-an-email-on-linux-x11/m-p/145461#M59589 Codatus 2026-10-30T10:52:18Z