A window manager is the software component responsible for the tracking and placement of windows within a graphical interface. Examples: Metacity, Compiz, KWin
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Gesture to minimize window in Gnome Shell
I have Ubuntu 12.04 with Gnome Shell chosen as Desktop Manager.
I'm getting used to how the windows are resized as they are dragged on some edge of the screen (e.g. maximized when dragged on the top, ...
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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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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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Moving windows from the keyboard
Is it possible to move windows from the keyboard itself without touching the mouse?
I know I can do a Alt + Left Click and drag the window, however I am hoping there is something I can use to move it ...
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Is there a way to stop KDE from overwriting my other WM settings?
What is the problem?
KDE does not respect other window manager/DE settings.
Is there a way to safely run KDE alongside other window managers without having to reconfigure them every time after ...
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Using xmonad configuaration on ubuntu 12.04
I'd like to use this xmonad configuration on ubuntu 12.04.
I followed the Installing requirements on Ubuntu Linux section from the above link and installed dependencies that aren't mentioned: sudo ...
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accessing a window
While working I need to pull some windows on regular basis. Now I switch between window using Alt + Tab or Alt + `.
Some windows I need more frequently than others. I want to have key combination to ...
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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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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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Different font rendering with other window manager
When I log into a session which uses the Blackbox window manager the fonts look different (read worse) compared to how they are rendered in Unity. Does anyone know if it is possible to achieve the ...
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WinTabber not running with wine on 12.10
I tried to run this with the program from properties and below is what I get from the terminal.
I looked around for a fix for it but I don't really know what to look for.
I also tried installing ...
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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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Compiz KDE Ubuntu 12.04 can't input text to programs and unable to move windows sometimes
Well i finally managed to install KDE with Compiz on Ubuntu 12.04.
Now i have only a few problems left
the biggest problem is that i can not input text into the KDE start menu.. it does popup ...
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12.04 Gnome Shell: New window opens half screen only and doesn't respond at all.
Many times when I open a new window it opens only on half of the screen. Cannot type on it, close it or move. It's dead. Basic case: got a im message shown via shell, click to open chat on Empathy ...
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how to remove title bar and borders on maximized windows in kubuntu?
In gnome-shell there is an extension that removes the window borders and close buttons and title bar etc on maximized windows to save screen real estate.
I'm sure kwin / kde has a way to mimic this ...
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Show Desktop/Workspaces/Active Windows by Hovering the mouse to any corner of the desktop
There is a way to show the "Desktop", "All Active Windows" and "Workspace Switcher" by just hovering ur mouse to the edges of the screen.
One way this can be done is using "Ubuntu Tweak".
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How can I disable windows of another workspace in the task bar?
When I switch to a different workspace, still I can see all the windows opened in the other workspaces in the task bar, so how can I get rid of this?
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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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associate program to a file where program is not in list
Relative noob here. Need help trying to figure this one out:
I have a program (Guitar pro 6) that I want to associate to all .gpx files so that when i start such a file, it is started with that ...
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How do I properly configure my screen edges to be non-sticky? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I disable mouse magnet on middle edge with multi monitors?
I find the sticky edges feature to be quite annoying. I'm using dual monitors and turned sticky edges ...
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ubuntu 10.04 installing sticky edge (or divvy alternative)
My school has 10.04 ubuntu. I have no sudo previliage but I want to use sticky edge (or divvy like app)
I tried a script using wmctrl, but we don't even have wmctrl on it.
Keep in mind, I can't do ...
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How do I rebind “Initiate Window Move” to mouse button 10?
I am trying to use button 10 on my mouse to drag windows around. I have installed CCSM and changed the initiate button in the plugin "Move Window" to "Button10" (with no modifier, though adding ...
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Make “Focus Follows Mouse” Application Specific
I wondered if this functionality was built in or if it is even scriptable.
In Gimp's new single window mode, it still treats the main canvas and the Layers dock as 2 separate windows that steal focus ...
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dual head monitor after upgrade: menu and windows borders missing in second screen
I had 10.04 with dual head monitors. After upgrade to 12.04 the second monitor is working but there are no "theme" or "window decoration" there...
The mouse pointer is the "old" X
I have a nvidia ...
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Window decorations disappeared?
yesterday everything was fine and today when i logged on to my ubuntu 10.10 I noticed that the icons in the top of each menu dissapeared(I mean the the bar where the close mini maize etc..)
this ...
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How to disable closing a window
It might sound ridiculous, but I want to prevent closing a window in Ubuntu. I want to provide to my users a highly secure environment, without any desktop environment with just one window open. Now I ...
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Can I minimize a window from the command line?
I would like to be able to choose any already-open window and minimize it from the command line. Is this possible?
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Which window manager offers the best stability?
I installed Unity window manager and love it, except that it is always crashing, When I say crashing, I mean that it is unrecoverable, I can't kill anything even from TTY.
It occurs usually once a ...
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How do I get winetricks dotnet20 to work on Ubuntu 12.10 amd64 with wine 1.4?
I followed the question about installing dotnetfx.exe (NET 2.0) for wine by using winetricks dotnet20 which, because i have ubuntu 12.10 amd64, downloaded the 64-bit executable instead, which i ...
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Is there a keybind to minimize all windows, without a toggle?
I know about the show desktop keybind (default Ctrl+Alt+D), which I use often enough. However, I'm looking for a way to minimize all windows without activating "show desktop".
I'm on a default ...
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Can't place windows on center of the screen
I'm using the gnome3 desktop as packaged by https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team.
On my two monitor setup (14'' laptop, 24'' attached monitor) I can't place any window near the center of my seccond ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 with Gnome 3 WM suspend graphical problem
So when I suspend my computer, the screen when my computer is locked or when I have opened the menu with windows button suddendly becomes bugged and looks like an old kinescope TV with no signal.
Is ...
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What is the difference between a desktop environment and a window manager?
As the title says.
I'm having a really hard time trying to understand what the differences between a desktop environment and a window manager are?
EDIT: This is what I found out later.
There are ...
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Alt-Tab does not switch [duplicate]
Since upgrading to 12.04, my alt-tab occasionally does not work. I cannot determine the symptoms that lead to it, but there are some windows that just decide not to show. What happens is I alt-tab to ...
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What is the command to put the current window in half the screen
I want to put the current, active window on one side of the screen. Then ideally I could put one window on the left half, and one window on the right half.
On windows the keyboard shortcut (the only ...
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How do you move the window controls to the window when maximized [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to remove maximized window controls/title from top panel in Unity
I want to move my window controls (close, maximize, minimize) back to the current window ...
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The bottom of windows are getting cut off!
I'm using an Acer Aspire One netbook, the resolution is 1024x600, using Ubuntu 12.04. Uh, I don't know if this affects anything, but I'm using French(Canadian) keyboard layout. Just in case that ...
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How to make JWM work in Ubuntu 12.04?
I have installed the JWM on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Software Centre, but it doesn't work. When I choose the JWM session from LightDM, it only shows a black screen.
It worked when I had another computer ...
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What window managers (or desktop environments) can group window icons in the taskbar like Windows 7?
I find it much faster to identify a window in the taskbar (window list) by its icon,
rather than by its text:
The problem with most window managers I've switched among is that they don't group ...
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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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Replacing Nautilus with Awesome Windows Manager on 12.04
Just like the title suggests, any idea on replacing nautilus with Awesome WM?
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Why are windows going to top left of the screen?
Recently I noticed all the new windows are popping up in the top left. This is annoying because the top bar blocks the title bar of the new window. See screenshot of Tunesviewer with Firefox, ...
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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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Why does one terminal keep jumping back to the primary workspace?
I've got Chrome open in the top-left workspace and two terminals open in the top-right workspace. The two terminals are snapped to left-half-screen and right-half-screen. When I alt-tab back to ...
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How to configure my system so that all windows start maximized?
Every time I open a terminal or an application like Inkscape I have to click the maximize button because by default they open in a small size. Is there a way I can configure my system so that whenever ...
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No maximise/minimise/close buttons on a new window
When I opened a new window(not maximised) I used to close with the left-top buttons, now they don't exist anymore. To close it I must drag it or maximise it... where the hell did the buttons go!?
A ...
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How do I customize Alt+Tab behaviour? [closed]
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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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Can I use Unity with XMonad?
I've been using Fedora for a while, but I recently decided to upgrade my ubuntu installation from 12.04 to 12.10. While I was using Fedora, I found xmonad tiling window manager which I sort of got ...
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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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Why doesn't the clipboard work in modern linux distributions?
Can't the developers finally in 2011 move away from the flawed concepts of selections and private clipboards in applications and create a working clipboard service under X window system?
I'm ...
