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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Qtile won't launch

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 and I was thinking about trying a window manager for programming and daily use. I'm actually not a computer expert but I'm starting to learn the basics of a few programming ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 fix for chrome screen tearing

When starting chrome without window manager I notice screen tearing when watching YouTube. This doesn't happen when I'm in Ubuntu desktop so I'm trying to track down whatever fix Ubuntu desktop ...
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how to select xubuntu-desktop?

Having installed xubuntu-desktop how do I now select it for use? I'm not seeing an option to select: I'm running 20.04, so perhaps it's different from the above image. Everything seems exactly the ...
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does installing xubuntu-desktop cause instability?

After a clean install of 20.04 to older hardware I installed both xfce4 and xubuntu-desktop and then removed ubuntu-desktop. Will this cause instability?
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Tiling window management - triple tiling

I use window tiling with keyboard shortcuts a lot on my Ubuntu. However, back in the days when I was using an XP OS at work, I found a great tiling manager software called Splitview. The difference ...
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Quickly place a window to another screen using only the keyboard (Xubuntu)

I followed Quickly place a window to another screen using only the keyboard to be able to shift my windows through different screens but nothing seems to happen. Is there anything else necessary to ...
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Disable "middle click to lower window" behaviour on gnome

I am using the Chromium web browser, and standard gnome (i.e. not unity). Chromium (like lots of things) has many tabs, and allows you to middle click on a tab to close the tab. But if I middle click ...
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Ardour5 (or Ardour6) do not display any GUI windows

Either running from terminal or from menu. ardour windows do not appear I've tried ardour5 and ardour6 (built from source) Yet, if I create a new account it seems to work fine. I've removed all of $...
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Shortcuts to resize windows

I've just installed Ubuntu 18.04 and I'm wondering if there's a way to set shortcuts for commonly/frequently used resizing and positioning of the windows. My other laptop is a Macbook and I use ...
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Do I actually need to reconfigure *everything* to use a tiling windows manager?

I'm new to Linux and I decided to try a tiling windows manager. I've installed BSPWM because I like it quadtree-like structure. I've logged out and logged in selecting BSPWM. I've learned how to ...
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How to enable Night Light on BSPWM?

I've installed Ubuntu 20.04, which has a night light feature. But now I've installed BSPWM and am using it my window manager. BSPWM seems to ignore the Gnome configs. So how do I enable night light on ...
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How to cycle through and open, open windows?

The problem with Alt-Tab is that it only shows you icons, and also groups windows of one app which are slow to separate. Also, the Super-W view showing all the windows at a reduced resolution is also ...
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how to alt-tab style switch windows

Using lxqt running mutter on ubuntu 20.04, I cannot forward switch windows, as I would be able to on the gnome-based desktop. I can alt+shift+tab reverse switch, though. When I alt+tab it just ...
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How to start dwm in Ubuntu

I'm trying to launch dwm in ubuntu 20.04, so far I haven't been able to do it and I wonder what is the right way to start this window manager. I already clone the repository and compile the file. This ...
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What are the 1x1 pixel windows are for?

In the output of xwininfo -root -tree, I observe a 1x1 window accompanying almost any other "normal" window. Like this: What are these windows for? Is there a way to obtain XID of such ...
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How do I save/remember last-used window position and size for applications?

When I log in Ubuntu, I would like all windows opened at previous session (terminal and Firefox mainly) to be re-opened automatically at the same size and position. How to proceed?
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Can I use sxhkd to bind to keycodes?

Is there a way to bind hotkeys in sxhkd using the keycodes, rather than the keysyms?
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New browsers windows are always full screen [duplicate]

I have the feeling I am missing something obvious, but if I knew I wouldn't be asking ... every time I create a new browser window in Firefox on Ubuntu 20.04, the window size of the new window fills ...
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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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How do I enable accessibility alt-key shortcuts in GNOME window menus?

I'm using Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME Shell 3.18.5. I have just switched from XFCE to GNOME, and I am used to pressing Alt+Space and then C to close a window, Alt + Space and then X to maximize, ...
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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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Window vertically maximized beyond desktop size

After navigating through the system setting to do post install tweaks on Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.1, I have a problem with the Sound Settings window in that it is vertically maximized way beyond my desktop ...
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new windows position on dual monitor setup ubuntu 20.04

is there any shell-extension or something that can force new windows to open on the monitor where the mouse pointer is in a dual monitor setup? even if it is a new instance of an open app like a new ...
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Why is Ubuntu positioning new windows beneath the menu bar?

I was messing around with CompizConfig Settings Manager recently and I'm not really sure what I did to cause this issue, but now all new windows are opened at 0, 0. This means the title bar is ...
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I compiled herbstluftwm via its git repo but I can't see it in lightdm?

Everything went successful. git clone https://github.com/herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm cd herbstluftwm mkdir -p build; cd build cmake .. make sudo make install
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What does, "gis "f38498f8-1663-4f2d-b17c-e50aefa2c1c9 @!0,0;BDH" is ready" means? Ever since I upgraded to 20.04, I am seeing this message

Whenever I boot 20.04, I see this window for like a few seconds. I wonder what it is? It disappears after some time. Sometimes this window closes itself last longer than expected; up to like 30 ...
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What is the difference between always-on-top and toggle-above dconf variables on GNOME 3?

In Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver with GNOME 3 org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings is the path to manipulate default window management dconf variables. Inside this path we can find always-on-top and toggle-...
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How Do I remove minimize, maximize, and close buttons in Ubuntu 18.04?

I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04. Previously in GNOME 3, the minimize, maximize, and close buttons never appeared on any of my applications, such as Chromium Browser and Emacs. These buttons annoy me ...
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Xubuntu 18.04 XFCE 4.12 window manager keyboard shortcuts not working with Apple Aluminium Keyboard model

Settings in Keyboard > Layout > Keyboard model are set it to Apple Aluminium Keyboard shortcuts specified under Window Manager > Keyboard have no effect at all. I can't cycle through windows using ...
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Can I force window to open on top of other windows when opened by keyboard shortcut?

I use SpaceFM as my primary file manager on Ubuntu. I typically open folder directly by keyboard shortcuts, so, e.g. Ctrl+Super+W opens my Work folder. Specifically, I use execute the command spacefm ...
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why ubuntu desktop showing nothing when vnc?

I was able to ssh to my ubuntu and started vnc server, then vnc to it form my mac but this is what I found see the screenshot. I do not see any desktop , when I mouse over a cross sign cursor appears ...
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How to measure for how long a window is active?

I am a digital artist, using Clip Studio Paint (a Windows app) to draw, through Wine. It would be interesting to know how many hours each piece takes me. But being how I am, most of the time I just ...
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On Kubuntu 19.10, double clicking a window title bar doesn't switch it between maximied and restore states

When I double-click on the title bar of any window, nothing happens. I notice that on the first click I get the Move pointer, and if enabled I get the geometry displays. Double-click works fine ...
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Keyboard shortcut to move windows between monitors?

I remember there used to be a setting under Compiz that set a keyboard shortcut for moving applications between physical (but combined as a single xscreen) screens, similar to moving between logical ...
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Scroll through opened windows & apps with mouse button and scroll wheel

I have my Logitech G502 mouse with many extra buttons so I wish to be able to hold down a mouse button, use scroll wheel to go through opened windows, release mouse button to select it. The close ...
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Can't horizontally split the screen with GNOME 3

I'm using GNOME 3.28.2 on Ubuntu 18.04.4. With the keyboard shortcuts "Special" + "Left Arrow", I can move the current window to the left, and resize it to half the screen; with "Right Arrow", the ...
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Window not visible, New maximized window are moved to new workspace but not drawn Ubuntu 19.10

I am working on an extension for moving workspace, https://github.com/raonetwo/MaximizeToWorkspace. For the windows that start maximized, the workspace switching is happening as expected. The new ...
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What are Window Managers, Desktop Managers, Desktop Environments, Login Managers? Which one do you need and Why? [duplicate]

What are Window Managers, Desktop Managers, Desktop Environments? Which one do you need and Why?
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How coupled is Mutter to Gnome Shell in Gnome3?

I recently changed my Ubuntu 18.04 window manager from Mutter (Gnome Shell) to i3-gaps. Some of the unexpected things that happened: polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 doesn't automatically start ...
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Use numpad to move+resize windows? [duplicate]

In my 16.10 I could use ctrl+alt+numpad to put a window into any half or quarter of the screen. Now that I've just wiped and installed 19.10 this no longer works :-( I want to use a modifier keyboard ...
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Xfce - Xfwm4 - how to edit settings for window shadow?

Xfwm4 has some gray shadows I guess, but I would like to increase their visibility so that window margins are more clear on dark background. I use a dark GTK theme, and especially on dark background ...
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How do I disable window move with alt + left mouse button in GNOME Shell?

There are lots of posts on this about Unity, this is about GNOME shell. As with other posters, I use apps (Inkscape in particular) that uses Alt-Click and Alt-drag. GNOME shell is grabbing this off ...
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Gnome grouping of windows for minimization and focus

I run Ubuntu 19.10 with Gnome. I recently switched to a 4K monitor. With the extra real estate, I've been putting windows into corners and on left and right halves. Invariably, Gnome decides that some ...
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How to change window manager to default?

I wanted to create a kiosk Ubuntu, then I followed this instruction: https://web.archive.org/web/20131210161955/http://phunehehe.is-great.org/2010/run-linux-with-a-bare-window-manager/ Add a custom ...
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Selective execution of .xinitrc for different DEs/WMs?

I recently finished my GNOME customisation and always have i3 on my machine because I like having the option to use it. I recently hit a roadblock when I realised if I put in a .xinitrc file to set my ...
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Quickly place a window to another screen using only the keyboard

I know that using Alt+F7, I can use the keyboard to move the window around. I can also use the "Grid" plugin of Compiz to position quickly the window around my current monitor. The grid plugin doesn't ...
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Change default width of gnome-terminal and terminator windows

Only a short question but is it possible to set the default width (and height) of terminal sessions in gnome-terminal and terminator? I find I always resize the window once it pops up so and given ...
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How to disable GUI on boot in 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)?

It appears that sudo systemctl disable gdm3 && sudo systemctl disable gdm do not work in 18.04 to disable the windowing system at bootup. What's the method for doing this now?
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Programs are grouped with the program that launched them. How can I change that?

This morning, I launched Slack from the program list. Once it was up and running, I clicked a link therein, which launched Firefox. In fact, it launched four Firefox windows, each with many tabs, ...
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Open Nautilus as a new tab in an existing window

Currently, if I click a launcher, shortcut icon, etc., I will get a new Nautilus window. If there is already a Nautilus window open, I would rather it open up in a new tab in the existing window (as ...

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