Questions relating to the behaviour of application windows, this is a very generic tag and you should consider also adding tags specific to your question.
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Problem with minimizing windows
I installed gnome shell from the official repo and after restarting , when i open a window (Either in gnome or unity) and try to minimize it , it freezes until i press Alt + Tab and when to maximize ...
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How can I customize the terminal window (in ccsm maybe) of this particular “filename.desktop” file
This filename.desktop does nothing else but to run a python script in a terminal window (this connects to the Internet - keep alive thread).
Since this is a quite commonly used window, I'd like its ...
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All open Windows fade and stay faded even when responsive
I am experiencing an issue whereby all open windows fade out as if unresponsive and yet are fully functioning. New windows and dialog boxes appear at full brightness but the existing windows do not. ...
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How do I remove the window borders from modal dialogs in Cinnamon?
System: Ubuntu 13.04, with Cinnamon 1.8.
Whenever a modal dialog like the one below (password prompt in GDebi) pops up, it always has an annoying border around it. Is there any way to fix this?
I ...
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How to open window centered in unity desktop Ubuntu 13.04
Is there a way to open and/or set programs in the center of the desktop in Unity?
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How to change system settings window size? [duplicate]
I can't seem to change the length of the system settings window, I want to change it as it is too long and can only just click the last row of items.
So how can I resize it?
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Why does CTRL key resize window in Unity desktop?
I have an almost out-of-the-box install of 12.04 Precise. I am familiar with assigning and reassigning keyboard shortcuts, as I interact with my computer almost entirely through the keyboard.
I am ...
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ubuntu 13.04 - switching/opening window causes them to freeze
I've just installed ubuntu 13.04 a few days ago, used 12.10 before.
This problem happens sometimes, I try to switch between windows, or close/minimize/open windows and then everything, besides the ...
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How do I enable live window resizing in Ubuntu 13.04?
In Ubuntu 13.04 when you resize an application window by clicking with the mouse on any of its borders the whole window area gets covered by an orange transparent film; if then the mouse cursor is ...
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Dim desktop, bring focus to active window
I recently stumbled upon this article for applications that dim the background of your desktop, bringing focus to the active open window.
Of course the applications are for Windows. My question is, ...
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12.04 Unity 2D - dragging windows barely works
I'm currently running 12.04 in VMWare Player on a Windows 7 64bit machine and I'm experiencing a lot of trouble with dragging windows around.
One of my biggest issues is that very often I'll snap a ...
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How come I can't resize Google Chrome's window less than 595px?
For some reason I can not resize Chrome's window to less than 595 px on Ubuntu 12.10. I can resize Firefox's window to 0 px. Also I can resize the Chrome window to a very small size on Windows. This ...
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Shortcuts no longer work for move window to left/right of screen in 12.04
I used to be able to send windows to the left/right half of the screen with ctrl-windows-left and ctrl-windows-right in 12.04. Now the left/right shortcuts do not work, but ctrl-windows-up / down ...
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How to disable windows effects in 13.04?
New install of 13.04 on a thinkpad x230. I want to disable the windows effects (they sort of zoom in and out from the middle of the screen). I find it distracting. I tried downloading the ...
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How to force Nautilus to open with side panel
New Nautilus 3.8 doesn't open with side panel. Even if I turn it on (F9 key), then close the window and reopen it - panel disappears. Can i force Nautilus to start with panel? Ticking proper option in ...
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How to resize windows with alt+right click instead of alt+middle click in Ubuntu 13.04
The title says it all. I want to resize windows with an right click while holding the alt key, instead of the new default alt+middle click.
I have found no way to enable this behaviour in 13.04. The ...
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Plotting not working well in with Rgedit in 13.04. Bug? [closed]
I just installed 13.04 on a new machine, and also installed RGedit. This is the old version that is in the ubuntu repository -- I couldn't for the life of me how to figure out how to get the new ...
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How to resize the System Settings window? [duplicate]
How do i resize or scroll down system settings windows, please check the pic below
There is no option to scroll or resize,if more than 1 application indicator added in system settings then i cant ...
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Save and restore window positions
Here is my configuration:
Ubuntu 12.04 (with Unity)
Laptop
External screen to use the laptop in dual screen mode
Several windows spread on both screens and on 4 workspaces
When I have meetings I ...
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Window Theme Not Changing 13.04 [closed]
it is in Raring Ringtail. Although the GTK theme change is working, it is not possible to change Window Theme and it is stuck with Ambiance.
Most probably it is a bug.
For the time being, where can I ...
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Oracle VirtualBox focus not changing
I run VirtualBox in many environments and in Ubuntu this is the only place where I have come across this bug
I've installed the latest VirtualBox and this problem still persists, it's odd
Basically ...
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Hiding Window Border For ncmpcpp
I am wanting to automatically hide the window border from the terminal which I launch ncmpcpp in. I can hide all terminal borders by using !(name=gnome-terminal) but I'd prefer to only hide ncmpcpp's ...
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How can I open a folder in a new window?
It appears that Nautilus no longer provides an Open in New Window option in its right-click context menus:
What procedure should I now use instead when I want to open a folder in a new window?
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How to open the existing file explorer and not a new one
I have a file explorer window opened and is in the background of Chrome:
However, when I click on the file explorer icon on the Launcher, it doesn't open/switch to the already opened window, but ...
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Change default window size of an application
When I start gvim, it will occupy roughly the top-left quarter of my screen. However I think this is too small. Is it possible to make it start bigger by default?
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Windows formated disks; are they any use on Ubuntu?
I have a bunch of disks (digital dictionaries, encyclopedia) on Windows format. Is it possible to read them with Ubuntu?(12:10) When I just put them in my drive, window says "no respinse" and it ...
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How do I open a terminal in unity without window's top bar?
I would like (in Unity) to open a terminal as startup application; I created a simple script
gnome-terminal --profile=Startup --geometry 40x24+920+300
and put it in my startup applications. Anyway ...
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How to drag full screen window to the other workspace in unity
As the title
I can drag the window to the other workspace if the window is not full screen. I need restore the window first before I move it to the other workspace. Any shortcut?
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Unable to move a window without alt after maximizing and minimizing it. Ubuntu 13.04, Unity [closed]
If I maximize a window and than minimize it again, I'm unable to move it without alt pressed. Does anyone know how to fix this?
I know that Ubuntu 13.04 is still in beta, but I'm just checking if ...
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Why does Ubuntu menu behave like OSX? [duplicate]
One of the annoyances of OSX was that the menu bar is locates in the top task bar and not on the window of the application you are running.
Its like playing ping pong having to move your cursor to ...
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Window is hidden but process is running
How may I restore the windows for a given pid? It would be useful in some situations where the window of a certain program disappears (happens to me sometimes).
For example, every time when i'm ...
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Firefox session selector displays reduced resolution
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit with ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver enabled.
When multiple Firefox windows are open and I double-click on the Firefox icon, the screen shows all the sessions ...
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Can't boot my windows 8 [closed]
A few weeks ago, I tried to boot from from Windows 8 but it won't load only a blank screen appears. So I had no choice but to use Ubuntu. When I was on ubuntu I tried to access the hdd that the ...
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Ubuntu 12.10, cannot resize any window
I am using the unity interface and i usally work with maximized windows.
However lately i noticed that i cannot resize windows.
I can get them maximized and to normal state.
When in normal state i ...
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Lubuntu window geometry - force window to always open in the same location?
I'd like my Chromium window to open with the same size and in the same place every time. I thought I'd be able to make this happen by editing lubuntu-rc.xml like this:
chromium-browser ...
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Why does window buttons appear twice in Chrome/Chromium? [duplicate]
After following some beginners tips/tricks for Ubuntu 12.10, I noticed that Chrome/Chromium windows shows the minimize, maximize and close button twice. I tried undoing what I did, but that didn't fix ...
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Window Drag Lock In Ubuntu 11.10 x64
I have installed 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10 on my ASUS G53JW Notebook using WUBI. It has an NVIDIA GTX460M Graphics Card. I have installed NVIDIA Driver version 304.54
The problem is that sometimes the ...
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Application window never appears (Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager)
I'm having an issue with gSTM failing to generate a window, it opened once, prior to a reboot, and I had moved it to Workspace 3 (not sure if this is relevant)
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 with a pretty ...
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How can I make Pidgin a single-window application?
I can reduce Pidgin to two windows, but no further. The Buddy List is always separate from whatever grouped chat window I create. Is there any way to combine it?
I have come across these plugins, ...
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Can't change 12.04 windows shadows
I've tried ccsm, editing the metacity-theme-1.xml in the /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/metacity-1 directory, tried gconf; and no such luck.
I can't seem to get the window shadows radius any bigger. I ...
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Xfce's window jumps suddenly when I click on window? [closed]
I am using Ubuntu Studio 12.04, as you know it has xfce desktop , but some times when i click on window for example on "Ubuntu software center" window and click on search to write, it move and jumps ...
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What programs are used to check free/used memory, disk space, and to manage tasks like the Task Manager in Windows? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where’s the “task manager”?
How to find out how much disk space is remaining?
How do I see how much memory I'm using?
How do I see how much disk space is free?
Is ...
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When I maximize a window, it goes to the wrong one of my dual screens
Example: From http://www.thedailyshow.com/, I try to watch the most recent episode. When I click on the icon to maximize the video, the maximized video shoots over to my little laptop monitor, and I ...
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How to remove fade effect when “Hiding all normal windows” with CTRL+ALT+D shortcut (show desktop)?
I'm using Unity on 12.10, with most of the Compiz Effects disabled.
I'd like to remove the fade effect when using the CTRL+ALT+D default shortcut to show the desktop.
The effect consists in fading out ...
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How to recover Ubuntu data if it's installed inside Windows?
I want to install Ubuntu inside Windows.
However, if Windows gets corrupted, how can data from the Ubuntu system be recovered?
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How to know the pid of active window
How to know the pid of active (focused) window?
I want to write a script in which it is necessary to know whether the user is actively using a program [browsing internet with somthing say firefox] ...
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How to implicitly raise windows under Unity?
I open System Settings.
Then I do something else and thus hide the System Settings window.
I forget that I have left System Settings open.
Now I again try to open System Settings, but it does not ...
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Windows cannot move and have no minimize or maximize buttons in Xubuntu, how can I fix this?
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 running the XFCE Desktop Environment. Windows can't move and stay open on the top left corner, and are missing the minimize and maximize buttons.
Also, when I try to use the ...
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How to pause an application when minimizing a window?
I'm following an Excel video-course on my PC, so I need to have both excel and the video-course program opened in two different windows to switch from one to another. I was wondering if there is a way ...
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What is the command to put the current window in half the screen
I want to put the current, active window on one side of the screen. Then ideally I could put one window on the left half, and one window on the right half.
On windows the keyboard shortcut (the only ...
