Window management is the placement of application windows.
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How can I turn off window titlebars (window decorations) in gnome shell/mutter?
There's a shell extension called Maximus that disables window decorations when windows are maximized, but I'd like to disable window decorations entirely, for all windows (just using keyboard ...
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Docked windows overflow into neighboring desktop
OK, I know I've seen a solution to this somewhere, but as you can probably guess, a combination of search terms like ubuntu windows desktop give so much noise it doesn't seem to matter what I add to ...
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Unity style number shortcuts which also minimize the focused application?
Is there a solution on Linux similar to the Windows 7 Win+number, or Unity's Super+number shortcuts, which will also minimize the application if it is currently active and focused?
In Windows 7, if ...
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Automatically Shade Window on Unfocus
I have certain windows (for example, Empathy) that I want to be automatically roll up (or shade) upon being unfocused and to roll down (or un-shade) when focused. I can manually roll the windows up ...
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mplayer window moving to the left when switching between workspaces?
I noticed on Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit with gnome-classic that when I have an mplayer window open on a workspace with the right hand edge of the window at the right edge of the screen, if I then navigate to ...
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wmctrl - focus most recent window of an app
I've created some shortcuts mimicking the Unity's Mod4 + num behavior.
wmctrl -xa Sublime || subl
What I don't like, is that once sublime is running, it always focuses the first opened window. I'd ...
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Show all windows of an application on second starter click instead of showing the scaling window picker
When using applications with multiple windows which all need to be visible at the same time, switching visible applications is a bit annoying right now, because only one window is shown when clicking ...
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Not returning focus to previously focused window
This has been bothering me a lot. When closing a window, the system does not give the focus to the previously focused window. Let me give an example.
Right now, I'm working with Google Chrome and it ...
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How do I open Skype's contact list when a chat window is open
When a user has a Skype chat window open but closes the main Skype window (the contact list), then clicking the Skype icon in Unity only restores the chat window, but not the main Skype window (the ...
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Compiz 'Place Windows' not working with Wine
I can not get the Compiz 'Place Windows' feature to work with a wine program, I'm quite sure I've configured it properly, all regular programs launch properly, but wine programs default to dekstop #1.
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How to fully maximize window in Xubuntu by dragging title bar to top edge?
In Xubuntu 12.10, I am able to drag a window title bar to the top of the screen and it will maximize, but it will only maximize the top half of the display. Is there a way so it maximizes to the full ...
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How can I make windows minimize using middle mouse button on title bar in Xubuntu?
Running Ubuntu 12.10 with Xubuntu-Desktop. Would like window to minimize if I middle-click on its title bar. Can't find any setting for this. Is it possible?
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How can I disable lower window when middle clicking on the Unity panel?
I often accidently lower my Firefox window when I try to close a tab by middle clicking on it and the mouse cursor is a bit to far above the tab which means the Unity panel (which includes window ...
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gnome-shell window management
Is it possible to create some sort of a window grid?
Example: I often use this layout, where S is a text editor and T is a terminal emulator.
SSSSSSSS|TTTT
SSSSSSSS|TTTT
SSSSSSSS|TTTT
SSSSSSSS|TTTT
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Minimize on click / dodge windows in Unity under 12.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I configure the launcher to “dodge windows”?
I would like to have minimize on click / dodge windows in Unity under 12.10: Minimized windows to restore, or windows ...
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Has the minimize speed been increased in 12.10?
In Ubuntu 12.10, by default, the minimize speed had been kept considerably slow in order to let users know where the window has minimized to...
but all of a sudden i noticed that now the speed is as ...
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Why does a clicked on application not move to the foreground?
I'm running into issues where if I have two applications running, where one is smaller and in the foreground, and I click on the window in the background, it does not move into the foreground. For ...
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ALT+TAB loses focus
I often use ALT+TAB but sometimes, not always, after 0.3 secs it loses the focus on the newly switched window. No arrow on the right of the icon in the launcher, no name of the app in the top-left ...
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Switching displays while keeping windows in workspaces
I currently have my laptop configured to use only the external display when I plug it in at my desk, and when I unplug the display, it uses the internal laptop display as I'd expect. Everything works ...
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will xtile work?
xtile is a kind of window tiling tool. I've tried to download the *.deb package from the following link:
...
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Open windows in center of screen
I'd like to have all of my windows open in the center of my screen instead of the top left corner. Is this possible? If so, where do I configure this?
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Align windows with keyboard shortcuts? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a shortcut to tile windows to left or right side of the screen?
I'm running 12.04 inside VMWare Workstation.
Windows 7 provides a very useful feature: use ...
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Mouse focus and keyboard error
My mouse can still move but is unable to interact with the windows under certain conditions. alt-tab doesn't work. but i can kinda use my desktop with my keyboard. I want to report this bug but don't ...
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wmctrl -a x-nautilus-session doesn't activate nautilus window
nor
wmctrl -R x-nautilus-session
why? how to get it working? Other windows are well controlled that way.
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How to prevent window list “confusion” when detaching eclipse views? [closed]
I'm detaching eclipse views to float on my other screen in order to get more coding space on the first screen. When doing that, the detached windows appear in ubuntu's window list applet with the ...
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Why won't windows remember their size in Lubuntu?
If I close a window, I expect it to remember the size it was, and reopen the same size next time.
On Lubuntu, this isn't happening. I close a window, and the next time I open that app, the window ...
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Change window move funcitonality to mirror OSX's Zooom2
On OSX I use Zooom2 to move my windows around with keyboard shortcuts and mouse motion. This operates in a very similar manner to Ubuntu, with the following difference:
On Zooom2, I have it set so ...
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Minimize and Show Applications
How can I minimize all the apps in Unity going to desktop and Show all the apps open, just like the top corner compiz function or MacOSx? thanks
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Can we use the window snap feature to fit a window to half the screen in Unity 2D? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I get Aero Snap in Unity 2D?
In Unity 3D you can move a window to the left and right edge of the screen to fit it to half the screen. I'm sure I saw this work on ...
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How do I open new windows of a running app on another workspace under Unity?
Since Ubuntu 11.10, it is really difficult to get multiple workspaces like Ubuntu 10.04.
For example:
When I wanted to open a new Firefox window, I just had to go to the next workspace and hit the ...
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How to set “always on top” on VLC by default? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to start an app with “Always On Top” set?
I want to always run VLC with "always on top" turned on. how to set it up?
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What are the orange circles appearing at the corners of my windows in Unity? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I use Unity drag handles?
What is this hidden Unity window-dragging feature I discovered on accident, and how do I reproduce it?
Every so often when I am moving ...
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Resize/Move edge too narrow on windows [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I increase the resize margin on windows?
When hovering near the edge of a window you get an option to resize them.
However that edge is too narrow when I'm using ...
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SSH shell launched using “expect” doesn't have full width. How can I make fix it?
I am using expect to auto login on SSH from an Unity launcher, the command looks something like this:
gnome-terminal -t SSH1 -e "expect -c 'spawn ssh root@111.222.333.255 ; expect assword ; send ...
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How do I fix the window grid feature?
I recently noticed that my Ubuntu 11.10 "window-grid" function is not working normally. It simply doesn't respond to my window drags to edges. I installed compizconfig-settings-manager and checked ...
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Gnome shell “show desktop” shortcut
I been thinking of anyone could guide me up, that in ubuntu 11.10 with gnome 3,
there is a option ctrl+alt+d to show the desktop by minimizing the current window.
What I was thinking was that if I ...
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How do I make my windows “wavy”?
I installed an Ubuntu version about 6 months ago, and in the appearance settings, I could check a box that made the windows "wavy" when you move them. Like, whenever you moved a window side to side, ...
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Have Movie Player always stay on-top of other windows
Is there a way to make the movie player to stay on-top while switching windows?
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Change the shortcut to move windows from Alt to Super/Meta in Unity-2D [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I change the window movement key when using Unity 2D?
There is already an answered question about this but it's only for regular Unity. I've looked through ...
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Why don't windows of the same application behave as they should?
Somewhere along the upgrade path, Unity has developed some strange logic behind window layering. First, before Oneiric, there was a way to see all the windows of an application - I think it was when ...
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How can I get my windows to remember the last window location? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Remember last window location
I want to ask the same question for Ubuntu 11.10... how can I configure Ubuntu 11.10 to start all program windows at the last window ...
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Is the sloppy windows focus not working as it should?
I am using ubuntu 11.10, with gnome3.
I installed gnome-tweak-tool, in the windows menu, I selected windowos focus mode: Sloppy.
I had never heard of it before but according to wikipedia sloppy ...
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Dragging a window is laggy (windows do not follow the mouse while moving smoothly)
When trying to drag a window the whole screen becomes laggy and some windows when dragged do not even appear until I release the mouse. They do appear where the window was suppose to end up after the ...
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How do you get window management (window titles etc) working properly for java applications? [closed]
I use several Java applications in my Ubuntu workstation, but they are grouped as one application in the window manager and don't have their application titles. It's frustrating not to be able to Alt ...
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Why don't some of my applications show up in the launcher when opened?
Sometimes when I open an application, the program will open, but it won't display in the launcher or in the Alt+Tab dialog. Here's a screenshot of VLC open:
As you can see, the icon doesn't ...
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Can I shorten the timing in the Alt+Tab dialog?
I like the new Alt+Tab dialog in Oneiric, but when I stop on an application it takes too long to break into the window-select mode. It seems like it takes a second or even more, and I'd like it to be ...
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Simple launcher to minimize all windows? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a Unity equivalent of the GNOME panel 'show desktop' applet?
Is there a simple way to create a launcher for Unity that minimizes all windows or, ...
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How to “roll up” the window?
After just having upgraded to 11.10, I wonder how i can change what happens when I double click a window title bar. I had it configured to roll up (I cannot remember the phrase in English, in German ...
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Modifying the behavior of <Alt>Tab (possibly) using Compiz
I have set up Compiz and my desktop in a way that I really like that maximizes my screen real estate on my 10' netbook, but there is a small annoyance that I would like to know if I could change.
The ...
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Equivalent to OS X window groups? [closed]
I would like to save a set of windows and their locations and have a shortcut to restore them.
Is there an Ubuntu equivalent to OS X's window groups?
