Questions tagged [window-manager]
A window manager is the software component responsible for the tracking and placement of windows within a graphical interface. Examples: Metacity, Compiz, KWin. If your question is about a specific window manager, add its tag.
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Installing AntiX's WMs on Ubuntu 16.04
I am not able to find an answer to this question, so I hope somebody will help me out. I currently use Ubuntu-Mate 16.04 LTS and love it. I have it set up perfectly to fit my needs. I also ...
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KDE Plasma doesn't recognize keyboard shortcuts, until I switch away from and back to KWin
I just made a jump from Maté to KDE Plasma. (Kubuntu v. 14.04.4) (I love everything else about it.) I'm hardly a linux beginner, but I don't usually mess with X and some help is appreciated.
When I ...
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No window manager after Ubuntu update (e.g. 13.10 to 14.04)
Machine is a single boot Linux.
After upgrading from 13.10 to 14.04 today, my son's account starts without a window manager. He has his desktop icons and can click them but no menu and no launcher. I ...
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HUD in other window managers (especially xmonad)
It seems that HUD (Heads Up Display) is tightly tied to Unity. However I just use xmonad as a window manager, especially I don't use unity.
Is there a way to use HUD within xmonad (or more generally ...
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Should I choose Ubuntu Server when installing a custom WM?
I would like to install the i3 Window Manager and when I tried it with the Unity version, some styles carried over to i3, which didn't look good. From my understanding the Server edition is just ...
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How to hide window borders?
I recently saw that on Manjaro (with XFCE4) it is possible to hide the top border of windows. So the title bar together with the minimize, maximize, close etc. buttons were not visible anymore.
Is ...
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How do I configure the mouse event behaviors
I've just installed 14.04 and cannot find the configuration tool to control how mouse clicks are acted on by the window manager, and then optionally passed to the application.
I want to set the ...
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How do I enable mouseover window focusing? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I set focus follows mouse?
I am trying to enable the feature where a window becomes focused (whether in foreground or background) when the mouse hovers over it.
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Can I automatically send a particular application's window to the lowest z-position, when it loses focus?
I do most of my work in two applications: my web browser and my editor. I switch back and forth between them frequently with Alt-Tab. I also have an IM client (Hipchat) open at all times, but I ...
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Minimalist Ubuntu without the default window manager
I'm about to install Linux on my new laptop (Dell XPS15 9550), but I usually end up with a bloated installation because I like to use the i3 window manager. This means I have GNOME etc installed but ...
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xdotool does not terminate
xdotool click 1 works as it should: the left mouse button is clicked once.
On the other hand, whenever I enter xdotool behave_screen_edge bottom click 1 in the terminal, the command does not ...
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1-day old kubuntu 15.10 doesn't close windows even though the program is closed
Dear ladies and gentlemen,
After a fresh install of Kubuntu 15.10 and some installations including Nvidia driver 352 from repos in order to switch to Zotac GeForce GTX750, some windows will not close ...
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Why can't I move a window to the top left corner with wmctrl in Unity?
I've been playing around with wmctrl to take more control of my windows.
I've encountered a weird behaviour where Unity reserves double the space.
See this screen shot:
I opened the terminal and ...
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How to install Gala on Xubuntu 14.04?
I tried to install Gala window manager (the windows manager of Elementary OS) on Xubuntu 14.04 as described for example here,
but seems like there is an unmet dependency. The error is
The following ...
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Building Awesome WM, missing dependencies
Trying to compile Awesome Window Manager on 11.04, I've done apt-get build-dep awesome but still get errors about missing dependencies:
$ make
Running cmake…
-- cat -> /bin/cat
-- ln -> /bin/ln
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Unable get my wireless network connection under awesome window manager?
Unable get my wireless network connection when I switched to awesome window manager. However, automatically I get wireless connection under Ubuntu 11.04 classic. Could someone tell me how to get ...
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X Server Starting Window Manager (Compiz-Standalone) Cursor is Black X
I'm running ubuntu server 15.10 using compiz as my window manager. My .xinitrc is:
#!/bin/sh
xset s off # don't activate screensaver
xset -dpms # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
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Docking windows on the left or right of the screen
I would like to dock my instant messenger and have it always be visible. Note: I am NOT referring to tiling. A docked window prevents any other window from maximizing over it, permanently, just like ...
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How to tile window on the corners in Xubuntu
After I realized that Unity is overstretching my graphics card and my CPU, I decided to remain to Ubuntu by switching to Xubuntu. Xubuntu is must faster, but I am now trying to reproduce the handy ...
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How to start a program always on second monitor
I tried to Google and to browse/search the questions but with no luck.
I have Xubuntu 12.10 installed and extended desktop is working great (Intel display driver). The problem is that I want to start ...
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How To Disable Sticky Edges via Command Line?
I know how to disable Sticky Edges via the Settings->Display UI, however, I want to be able to do it via command line or config file.
Does anyone know how to disable "sticky edges" via a command or ...
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How can I determine if a process has a window, and subsequently show, hide or close it?
Is it possible, either through a shell script or terminal command, assuming you have the PID, determine if it has a main window (form), and then get info about it (title) and show/hide/close it?
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Tiling window manager with multimedia key support out of the box
I love tiling window managers. I tried i3wm the other day and loved it. However, I spent all day trying to get my multimedia keys to work. They never did. GNOME and Unity both recognize the key ...
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How to start nautilus maximized from command line?
I can easily start Nautilus on a particular directory from command line:
nautilus /home/nico/Documents
But I want that Nautilus window to be maximized.
How to write the command line?
nautilus does ...
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move window to corner and RESIZE in gnome shell
in Unity with the CTRL-ALT-KeyPad_7 keybinding I can move a window to the top-left corner and it is automatically resized to a quarter of my desktop size.
In gnome-shell, in dconf, I found the ...
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How to hide window decoration (title bar) in Opera 32 and Cinnamon?
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and my DE and window manager is Cinnamon (Muffin).
Chromium has a nice option "Use system title bar and borders". Opera does not. I tried to add an option --force-native-...
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How do I permanently change window titles?
Which files are involved in generating the window title? For example, if you open Rhythmbox, you see the program name as the window title. But it’s not generated by the .desktop file. Which file(s) do ...
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15.10 Window Manager don't load properly
Since yesterday my window managers don't load completely. There are no window controls or any panels visible.
Cinnamon for examplem goes straight to fallback mode; Unity doesn't throw an error but has ...
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Missing window borders in Gnome 15.10
Just installed Ubuntu 15.10 with Gnome 3. Using the Gnome Tweak-Tool I switched on Min/Maximise Buttons.
Applications start maximised. When I un-maximise them, holding Alt and pulling down, there are ...
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Can I minimize a window into a box on Unity?
On Irix's 4Dwm, there was an ability to minimise windows into a box (contrary to the task bar used by modern window managers). I have seen this also on an old HPUX.
See the "console" square in the ...
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How to install gTile and other gnome extentions in Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 - cannot detect copy of GNOME on this system
I am trying to install gTile in Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/28/gtile/).
Instead of an on/off slider I have the following message at the top of the page:
We cannot ...
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How can I make a shortcut to raise an application's window if it exists?
I constantly switch between Sublime Text, Terminal and Chrome. I'd like to bind shortcut like "Alt + 1" so my current Terminal and current Google Chrome opens.
Right now, each time i launch Google ...
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How to launch Configure Kde control module by command line?
Right-clicking on the top bar of a window gets you, via "Configure Window Behavior", to the Window Manager settings. Here you can learn and configure the advanced features of KWin.
But is there a way ...
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Programs suddenly have old window designs
I don't know what I did, but it seems that most of my programs are now using some poor old window design:
But for example nautilus doesn't have this problem :
Would anyone know what this is due to?
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How can I prevent annoying workspace- overlapping window appearance?
In the current workspace, I don't want to see the edge of a window I was working with on another workspace.
Also I like being able to shove a window mostly off screen so forcing bounds wouldn't be a ...
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Problems with windows interface
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity for a year. Everything was OK until update last month. After it some program windows became a mess, just like on this screenshot.
How can I fix this?
UPD. I've ...
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Use the same keyboard shortcuts across all window managers? (RIP bbkeys)
By configuring and running bbkeys I was able to define all my favourite keyboard shortcuts for manipulating windows and starting applications in one place, and then use them from any window manager. (...
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Window manager decorations disappear after mounting old home folder
I had a 15.04 system where the window manager decorations disappeared after I installed Nvidia drivers. I removed and purged them, but the decorations never came back.
So I reinstalled to 14.04, ...
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How to change the window manager without the login screen?
I know, in general, how to change which window manager I use after logging in. I do this (normally) by choosing from a slightly difficult to find menu/list of window managers. Easy.
There must be a ...
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Force child windows to stay on parent's workspace
I am a heavy user of multiple workspaces, and often find an application, say, on workspace 2 will open a child window on the currently active workspace 3 where I have my web browser. Is there a way to ...
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Thunderbird window gets stuck maximized with no window controls
My Thunderbird opens up maximized and without any window controls available. When this happens Unity's left sidebar disappeares - here's the screenshot of my entire desktop.
I tried removing some of ...
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How to disable sticky edges if the switch in the displays configuration window does not help?
There is an on/off switch for sticky edges in the display settings window. But toggling it does not seem to change anything at all. How do I disable sticky edges then? I'm running 15.10.
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How to move windows to a certain screen when using more than two monitors in gnome-shell?
There's an question that is asking in how to move a window around using keyboard shortcuts.
Yet the provided answer of using
Ctrl + Alt + NUMPAD 4 (left edge)
Ctrl + Alt + NUMPAD 6 (right edge)
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How can I easily send a window to the back of a stack?
I like to work with a number of apps open on a secondary monitor, one with a maximized window, and several more that are manually tiled in a particular way on top of them, just exposing a particular ...
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Minimize windows without them going black and white
I recently updated to KDE 4.10. Now when I minimize windows, the task manager shows them being black and white. I find this very annoying since I tend to find windows primarily based on colors, not ...
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How do I display two windows as split screen? [duplicate]
I have two open programs, but I want to view both of them at the same time. Dragging and adjusting them manually takes time, and I might have to do this every day. Is there any shortcut for doing this ...
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How can I get Eye of Gnome to open each figure in a new window?
I frequently open several (~10) figures that I want to compare. I have always generated them using an eps format then used evince to open the set I want to compare using something like
evince set1*....
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WinSplit Revolution for openbox?
When on Windows I commonly use WinSplit Revolution to arrange my windows.
I found a plug-in for compiz fusion that does a similar task, but I am using openbox. Are there any programs that can do the ...
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Alt-Tab behaviour in KDE 4.8.2 after upgrade to 12.04
This may be a silly question for this community (and if this question does not belong here, please let know, and I'll either delete it or move to another suggested forum.)
I run Kubuntu, and I just ...
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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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