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xfce windows are missing toolbar, focus is broken
It's subtle, but as you can see in the screenshot:
there are no min, max or close buttons on the windows. The edges of windows can be resized, but it doesn't help the situation. Clicking on a ...
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Is it possible to place windows with keyboard shortcuts in Xfce?
With Compiz in Unity, I could press Ctrl+Alt+6 to place a window on the right-half of the screen, Ctrl+Alt+4 to place it on the left half, Ctrl+Alt+7 to place it in the top left quarter of the screen, ...
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XFCE running but core features not working
Suddenly, my xfce4 desktop manager is behaving very weird: the frame around windows for moving or closing them are missing, I cannot switch between windows or bring windows in the background by ...
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1answer
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How can I change the Xfce window manager to awesome?
I'd like to use the Awesome Window Manager with all the other XFCE4 environment daemons, like keyrings, panels, power managers, etc. Is there a way to do this?
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0answers
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How to setup a lightweight keyboard-friendly window manager with add ons
I was looking for a lightweight windows manager with focus on doing things by keyboard. Most of the lightweight desktop environment such as XFCE or window manager such as Fluxbox, etc., doesn't allow ...
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1answer
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how to change xfce4 default window manager
How can I change the default window manager for xfce4?
for some reason xfwm doesn't run when I run xfce4 shell.
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1answer
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Cycle windows over all workspaces in XFCE (while being able to cycle over one workspace)
I am aware of the xfwm4 -> general -> cycle_workspaces setting but I want to have two shortcuts:
cycles over the windows of the current workspace
cycles over the windows of all workspaces
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2answers
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How do I customize Alt+Tab behaviour? [closed]
GOAL:
I would like to make the little menu that pops up when I press Alt+Tab to gain the ability to jump to a particular window by pointing my mouse at one of the icons. This is the behaviour that ...
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0answers
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Window colors/shades/decoarations/whatever per instance [closed]
Sometimes I open several instances of one program at the same time and have to switch between them every few seconds and get totally confused as to which is which (they all display similar ...
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3answers
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How do I enable Alt + middle mouse button window resizing in Xubuntu?
As of the 11.10 release I've switched from vanilla Ubuntu to Xubuntu for a plethora of reasons. Thus far I'm loving XFCE and have nearly everything configured the way I like it. The one thing that's ...
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2answers
709 views
How to move windows to another workspace without switching workspace?
XFCE supports a hotkey to move a window to another workspace.
In fact this does two things:
It moves the window to the new workspace.
switches to this workspace.
I'm trying to disable this ...
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Do I need a desktop to run a GUI?
I am setting up a light weight VM, following the guide in the Ubuntu Documentation
What I want to be able to do is launch a GUI application. I don't need / want anything on the desktop.
First I ...
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xfce focus window on cycle (alt-tab) [closed]
I just installed xubuntu natty. I would like to focus windows as I cycle using alt-tab. Reason being, I may have 5 of the same windows open on a workspace, and I need to visually see which one I will ...
