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Xorg crash leads to unresponsive window management
This is a very hard question to ask, because the symptoms are so wierd.
I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and its set to automatically log me in on boot. When I see my desktop, everything works good. When I ...
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Icewm broken after upgrading to 13.04
I have installed an Ubuntu minimal of version 12.10 and put an xorg and an IceWm over it as window manager without any login manager.
Today I try to upgrade my system to the new version (13.04). The ...
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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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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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Why do most window managers fail to show a custom cursor correctly?
Please note: I am not so much looking for a fix, as there doesn't seem to be one.
However, I want to know why most Window managers ignore my choice of cursor theme and show the default cursor no ...
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How to bind a character device in /dev directory as the keyboard?
I have written an character device, I want to declare it as the keyboard and use it to generate events from the virtual keyboard?
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What is the most basic window manager for ubuntu that can be used to display a single application
I've tried starting a full screen application without a window manager, using xinit,
which works but instead of starting at the top left of the screen the application starts somewhere in the middle of ...
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Is it possible to make all currently open windows minimize, whenever I open a new application?
When i open(not only running) an application, how to make the other windows minimized?
PS It seems i can not do it with Devilspie.
Thank you for your time.
Ubuntu 12.04
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Can I force all new windows to mAximize? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to configure my system so that all windows start maximized?
Maybe it will run by any hidden process (deamon)?
How can i do it?
Ubuntu 12.04
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How to switch windows manager on-the-fly?
I know there's a command to let compiz take over from whatever windows manager is running, using compiz --replace &, same for unity with unity --replace &. What are the similar commands for ...
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How to Enhance xinit?
I started with Ubuntu 12.04 minimal and added a couple of applications via apt.
Since these applications require GUI, I used sudo apt-get install xinit
And to start the applications I am doing ...
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Make windows smaller
Currently everything on my laptop takes up too much screen real estate. I can make the launcher icons smaller, the font smaller, I can use ctl-(minus) to make the contents of my browser smaller, but I ...
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Different window managers on different screens?
Is it possible to run different window managers on different screens?
Example, I want to run a tiling window manager (such as awesome) on one screen, and then I would like to run a stacking window ...
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How to determine which window manager is running
Is there any way (such as a command or environmental variable) to determine what window manager is the one actively running in the current session?
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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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How do I run a graphical application in a virtual console besides <Alt+F7>?
I want to run R in a virtual console and RCommander in a separate virtual console. Or maybe I want to run a game in a virtual console and shut off the desktop. Or maybe I want to pipe an ssh -x ...
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How to destroy a window?
Sometimes there's a leftover window in the bottom right area of the screen. It's transparent (invisible), but it will not let me click windows underneath it. I know it's there, after I verified with ...
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How to use loose focus feature of Xserver?
I want one window to loose mouse focus (its a game, and alt-tab doesnt work as it should).
There is this interesting commit that i reached with searching and reading, but dont know how to use DeaGrb ...
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Is Client Side Decoration(CSD) dead?
As stated by KWin developer Martin: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2010/10/kwin-at-uds/
I just wanted someone to confirm it... :-)
