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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Is there any way to open more than one folders(Home folder, videps etc..) by clicking the 'files' icon on the unity bar?
Why only one nautilus window manager is opens when clicking on the 'Files' icon on the unity bar? I need to open two or more HomeFolder windows by clicking on the 'files' icon on the unity pane. I ...
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How to move Window control buttons to unity panel?
Ubuntu 12.04
I have tried doing this by Compiz and Ubuntu Tweak tools but haven't been able to find the option... Is it possible to move the window control buttons (x [ ] and - ) to the very top left ...
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How can I build Aura Wm from Chrome OS in Ubuntu?
I saw the OMG! Ubuntu article on installing ChromeOS on top of Ubuntu. I liked the window manager, Aura, and want to add it along with Unity without the ChromeOS version active (to get Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu Screenshot Window Class
I would like to know the class for the "thing" that pops up when you take a screen shot using the default screen capture utility in Ubuntu 12.04. When I do a full screen capture it lags a lot because ...
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How do I define the window icon used by window managers?
I would like to change the icons displayed in window title bars:
The window icons appear to be unrelated to the icons used by launchers and docks, as they don't follow the ones defined in their ...
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Problem starting wmii after a minimal installation
I did a minimal Ubuntu installation then after installing wmii and trying to run it with startx I get this message:
/etc/X11/wmii/wmiirc: 247: /etc/X11/wmii/wmiirc: xsetroot: not found
I'm still ...
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How can I get Xubuntu's workspace switcher to show the proper sized desktop?
I recently installed the Xubuntu desktop over my Ubuntu 12.04 installation, and have been customizing it to my liking. My laptop comes to class with me, and when it's not out of the room, it's usually ...
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How to move a window between monitors with Gnome Shell?
I see this question is "answered" by stating that there is no way to do this in GNOME:
How to move windows around and between monitors, using keyboard short cuts?
I have doubts that it should be ...
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Xmonad with Unity / HUD
I want to use xmonad and still use the HUD from Unity. Is this possible?
Could Xmonad be using while using Unity? is there a way to use the HUD inside of Xmonad?
I'm in 12.04, soon to be 12.10.
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Gnome shell maximizes “large” windows
It seems gnome-shell (3.6.1) maximizes large windows. I.e. if the last non-maximized size for a window was large, the application will open maximized next time.
I've head of such a thing in Unity, ...
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How to change chromiums windows buttons to gnome defaults?
Chromium's custom Minimise/Maximise/Close buttons do not fit in with my Gnome 3 theme. I have managed to move them back to the right hand side, but I cannot find a way to change the button icons to ...
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How do I write to the screen outside normal window boundaries?
How can I create irregularly shaped windows and/or write graphics to the screen outside window constraints?
What libraries might help me do this? I would prefer solutions to be as portable as ...
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Is it possible to use Ash window manager from Chrome OS?
Is it possible to use Ash window manager from Chrome OS?
Here is how it looks like:
More info:
http://www.chromestory.com/2012/04/aura-and-ash-in-chrome-os-what-are-they/
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How to make the window manager to show the X - [ ] not on left top corner but bottom left or bottom right corner?
Ubuntu 11.04, how can i change the Windows close/minimize/maximize buttons on top left corner to somewhere else like: bottom left corner, bottom right corner? If it's not possible, then I would like ...
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Window management shortcuts?
I've got a single massive monitor at home, and I've decided to mimic the Windows 7 window tiling shortcuts. I found a few guides online using wmctrl, and it's going well, save one thing: maximized ...
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Window Manager “Showing Desktop Mode”
when I execute wmctrl -m I get the following output
spv@matrix:(~)$ wmctrl -m
Name: Compiz
Class: N/A
PID: N/A
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: OFF
Why is my "showing the desktop" mode ...
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How can I set that Alt-TAB to switch windows only on the current workspace?
How can I set Alt-TAB shortcut to switch only between current workspace windows (not all windows on all workspaces) used Unity in 11.10?
I set a plugin for it in compiz manager, but it could not solve ...
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What is the lightest desktop interface for ubuntu and is Unity-2d classified as a 'light' interface?
With the plethora of potential interfaces available
lxde,
openbox,
fluxbox
xfce,
gnome2,
gnome3,
unity-3d,
unity-2d etc,
my question is - what is meant by "the lightest desktop interface" - and ...
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how to do ALT+ TAB for main system while in VBOX?
I have recently gone through this issue. I am running Lubuntu 13.04 in VirtualBox .So when I have maximized and if I would like switch to next window of main system usually we all do ALT+TAB but thats ...
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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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Gnome-classic, new windows remain buried behind other window
This is my first question on this forum.
I have recently moved from ARCH Linux to Ubuntu 11.10.
I switched to using Gnome-Classic and noticed strange behaviors with the windows whenever I open them.
I ...
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ubuntu i3wm freezes on login
I switched to the i3 window manager, which is quite nice, but I have a funny bug. If I reboot and set the wm to i3 (within the lightdb settings) the gui freezes after logging in (i can see the ...
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Metacity malfunction preventing custom Gnome session from launching?
When I try to run Metacity in Ubuntu2D(12.04), I get the following message:
alisa@ubuntu:~$ metacity
Window manager warning: Screen 0 on display ":2.0" already has a window manager;
try using the ...
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Ubuntu 12.10: Can't change window title bar font
In Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2, I've tried using Ubuntu Tweak to change the window title bar font, but after it's changed in the application, it's not reflected throughout the system. I've tried different ...
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Using LXDE with Kwin window manager
Can anybody tell me how I use Kwin as my winow manager with LXDE.
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How do I enable center click paste for fvwm?
I'm using FVWM2 as my window manager on ubuntu 12.04 LTS and can't seem to get center click paste to work.
What do I need to add to the fvwm2rc file or change via xmodmap to get this to work?
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Are there any GTK3 themes that work properly in Unity-2D? All that I've tried have “button glitches”
Every GTK3 theme I've ever tried other than Ambiance or Radiance has some "fallback" buttons when maximized instead of the theme buttons. Is there a fix or a theme without this issue?
Example:
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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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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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How to efficiently navigate through all application windows in Unity (aka Alt-Tab)
In Unity, Alt-Tab initially shows only one icon per application. Often I have multiple Terminal windows, and I prefer navigating to them via keyboard. Here are the different options I have found, and ...
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How to remove window decorations in Cinnamon / Muffin?
I have installed Cinnamon and Muffin and I love them. Finally, I have a working expo! However, I would like to remove all window decorations: I resize and move the windows with alt-mouse, and close ...
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Is it possible to use nmcli completely without nm-applet?
Since I don't use GNOME now and try wmii, the nm-applet is no longer available for me.I know there is nmcli for the control. What I'm really interested in is that can it really be a substitute for ...
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How to make Gimp run as a single window?
Gimp is nice, but the one thing that drives me nuts is that everything floats around in front of each other, often hiding the main window and forcing me to minimize all open windows until I find the ...
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New windows are placed too high and the window toolbar goes behind the
I changed some settings in compiz and now the new windows are placed too high and behind the panel. The settings that I changed were disabling the visual effects only. it is really annoying to always ...
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programs' title bar dissapear
I have the next problem:
the programs' title bar just dissapear and I can't move the windows, maximize, etc.
It occurs when I turn on the computer, but not always.
Is it a bug or something??
I've ...
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How to install and use FLWM?
I have used Lubuntu before, and like the low resource use and high speed of flwm. However, when I install the flwm package using apt-get and log out, I do not get an option to use it. Am I missing ...
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Run programs that require a window manager, on the CLI
Is there any way I can run a game server (MW3) under wine without requiring a window manager present?
Currently to run windows only game servers on my Ubuntu box, I have to start them using RDP ...
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How do I use Scale for Application-only windows?
If I have 3 windows opened in the same application (e.g Google Chrome) I get this in the Unity Bar:
OK, that's good and expected. If I click that, it will Scale the windows that belong to that ...
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How to install and use AwesomeWM alongside Unity? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install and use Awesome WM?
How to install and use AwesomeWM in Ubuntu 12.04?
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How to make unity unresponsive?
Recently I wanted to test a keyboard shortcut, which is supposed to kill X server (hence very useful when you have a crash). That shortcut is not dependent on any particular window manager (like lxde, ...
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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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Ubuntu window randomly stop drawing
After using Ubuntu for a while, application windows will begin to stop drawing. The application will continue to run (if I'm using keyboard shortcuts, the application exhibits normal behavior, like ...
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How do I add Window Manager From Scratch (WMFS) to the Window Manager selection in the login screen?
how do I add Window Manager From Scratch (WMFS) to the Window Manager selection in the login screen?
I've installed it already and now I want to boot it, but how do I do that?
Regards,
Senad
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Some windows aren't recognised by Unity
Some apps, including Transmission in particular, are not recognized by the Unity window manager.
I am not able to focus or select certain windows.
Curiously, I also can't drag it to the launcher.
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How do I move a window when two-finger scroll is enabled?
I just installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my MacBook Pro, and I have enabled two-finger scroll.
Now I'm unable to move a window with the trackpad, which is usually done by click-and-holding the window title ...
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Program/Wrapper (how do you call it) to automate a certain script
In this question a script is provided, that minimizes all the other windows except the active one. But the thing is, to trigger this script a (shortcut) key-combination has to be pressed.
I would ...
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How do I restart the window manager?
How to restart window manager so that styles (or whatever) are restored?
After doing /etc/init.d/networking stop they feel completely broken.
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How to use mouse scroll to hide windows?
I used to set the mouse scroll to hide the windows when scrolling on the title bar: alas, I can't remember how I did that...
Can you please tell me how to achieve it?
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Window title-bars missing occasionally in Unity
window (title and icon) sometimes doesn't appear. As a solution to this, I have to logout and login again. Is there something wrong with my system? How to make sure that this doesn't happen again?
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Manual shortcut keys without using settings
I want to change the "Close Window" shortcut to Ctrl+Q as this is more intuitive to me than the default Alt+F4. Prior to 12.04 upgrade, I was just able to change this via the settings window, but in ...
