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Visual Effects crashs when I switch windows while runing Git with Wish [closed]

Environment I am using git with its gui applications gitk and gitgui which are based on the simple windowing shell named wish. Also I enabled Visual Effects in the Appearance Preferences of Ubuntu. I ...
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Is there any Window Manager like the Windows 7's for Ubuntu?

In Windows 7, if you drag a window to the top of the screen, it will maximize, and if you drag to the side, it will restore to half size of the screen on that side. Is there any window manager or ...
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Remove windows borders (like in lxde)

I have a small screen (1280x800) and don't like to waste space. Is there a way to remove a title bar and the frames of the windows themselves? The buttons on the title bare are easily replaced by ...
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How can I make the draggable window border thicker, without changing the appearance?

When you want to resize a window in gnome (as well as in other systems) you can click-and-hold at the window's border and than drag it. The problem is (and do correct me if I'm wrong here) that the ...
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How do I increase the resize margin on windows?

It takes me about 5 tries to resize a window on my computer. Is there a way to increase the resize margin on the edge of windows?