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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Black areas with default (gray) theme in GTK3 based applications
I use Ubuntu 12.04 with the Blackbox window manager and the default (gray) GTK theme. With some GTK 3 applications, like Gedit, Disk utility and Evince I see black areas which should be gray and these ...
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How do I install only the KDE desktop (and not apps) on Unity?
My question is pretty simple. I have Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity and I want to login with KDE.
I have seen recommendations to:
1- run the three commands:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ...
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What is the equivalent of # compiz --replace in lubuntu?
What is the equivalent of this command in lubuntu?
# compiz --replace
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How do I install and use the Bluetile window manager in 12.04?
I've been working on getting bluetile working on 12.04 so I can start down the path of tiling windows managers, but I have been having limited success. I have read the (only 7!) other posts on ...
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close window in window overview
I have several terminal windows open.
When I click on the terminal icon in the launcher, all terminal windows are shown in an overview.
Is it possible to close a windows from the overview without ...
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How to move the lock window on the lock-screen?
Is it possible to move the window where you input your password on the lock screen away from the center, e.g. at the lower edge?
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Adjust window opacity on gnome-shell?
I am using gnome-shell, I often use the "Always on top" feature for things like copy dialog's etc.
What I am wanting to be able to do is also set specific windows to be semi-opaque.
Is there an easy ...
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Remember window monitor for windows in multi-monitor setup (12.04)
I'm on Unity 3D, in a dual-monitor setup.
I like to keep certain applications on fixed monitors / workspaces.
However, it annoys me needing to move all those windows to the desired monitor / workspace ...
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How to get window decorations back?
In 11.04, using traditional GNOME (not Unity), windows suddenly lose their decorations way too often:
For the next time this happens, can anyone suggest a fix that would be quicker than logging out ...
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Window focus confusion in unity
I like having focus prevention set to high, so that I don't have some stupid auto-launched app steal my typing in the middle of something else. Unfortunately, Unity keeps focus on the right window ...
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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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How to start an app with “Always On Top” set?
There are a couple of applications that I find myself marking as "Always on Top" every time I use them, so I wonder if there is a way to automatically set them as so, whatever way I start them (menu, ...
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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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How to make chromium-browser show in only one virtual desktop?
I am now using the "Lubuntu version based on lxde", which is based on "openbox".
What frustrats me a lot is that the chromium-browser is omnipresent on both workspces. I have tried to modified ...
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How do I get UDE and UWM running on precise?
Unix Desktop Environment(UDE) and Ultimate Window Manager(UWM) look amazing from what I've seen, but when I installed it I couldn't figure out how to launch it. It wasn't added automatically to the ...
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How to uninstall kwin without installing openbox?
I haven't found anything about this anywhere, but when I remove kwin it automatically installs openbox for me and vice versa without me having any say in it. I realise this is to prevent users from ...
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Dual Monitor Window Management
I have two displays: 4 desktop spaces (the Wall) having 2 displays each. If I unplug the second monitor, then all windows move quite strange.
I place 8 windows: 1 and 2 on the first desktop space on ...
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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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Maximize and undecorate all apps in Xubuntu
On my netbook I'm running Xubuntu as it works much faster than Unity 2D. I'd like to have all the apps maximized and undecorated, is there any way to do that without Compiz?
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When clicking below window title bar in KDE, window dragging is initiated. Can I change this behavior?
this one is regarding KDE in Ubuntu 12.04.
The thing is that whenever I click below the window title bar in KDE, the window manager always assumes I want to drag the window, not just activate it. ...
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Getting window maximization to work properly with Tint2
I've added a bottom taskbar to Unity with tint2. Now I have the taskbar on the bottom of my screen as desired, but when I maximize windows their bottom edge sits under the taskbar that tint2 created.
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Problem with KDE's pseudo-tiling side-by-side feature
I'm using Kubuntu 12.04 LTS with KDE 4.8.2. I'm having a problem with the pseudo-tiling feature where dragging a window into the side of the screen makes it occupy that half of the screen. If I've ...
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Autohide question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I configure Unity's launcher auto-hide behavior?
I have a ten inch screen, and Firefox is crowded to the right by what people seem to be calling the left ...
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Alternative desktop managers
Gnome is a reasonable desktop manager, but it doesn't seem to match Mac OSX or Windows 7. Are there any alternatives for Ubuntu that focus more on usability?
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Unity freeze on actual window [closed]
I have a very weird bug on my laptop since I started using unity on 11.10.
Sometimes, specially when there's a lot of heavy applications open, some features of unity stop working, among them:
All ...
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How can I reset compiz to the default settings?
I've got a bug that is reoccuring (no window chrome close/minimize/maximize buttons) that is solved by changing the visual effects level (e.g. from none to normal).
Unfortunately, the desktop is ...
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Alt+F10 to maximise window in 12.04 with gnome-classic no effects?
How can I use Alt+F10 to maximise window in 12.04 with gnome-classic no effects? I was able to use it in 11.10, but now, if I am in gnome-terminal and I want to maximise it, I get a symbol ;3~ and ...
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Wrong window focus behaviour in Unity, but not GNOME Shell
I just upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10, and I'm noticing a strange window behaviour that I can't seem to fix. Basically it seems like all windows have focus, as shown in this screenshot:
It happens ...
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Can I completely disable the menu proxy?
In recent Ubuntus the menu has been pulled up into Unity's panel. That's great, but it's not for me. I'm using the Gnome 3 fallback panels for my desktop and like my menu's like they always were.
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Compiz not drawing window controls
I have recently installed driver for my ATI graphic card in my Dell Studio laptop. I have also read this somewhere on the web that Ubuntu enables compiz window manager by default if your hardware can ...
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What is the app, “compiz” responsible for on ubuntu 12.04?
When I open my system monitor and check the "processes" tab, I've noticed that regardless of what other apps I have running, "compiz" is always taking roughly 10% of my CPU. It might be a broad ...
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Intermittent temporary GUI freeze in Ubuntu 11.10 [closed]
I've been using Ubuntu 11.10 for a month or so. In the last week it's started freezing randomly (every few hours or minutes). I can still move the mouse and switch to other terminals with ctrl+alt.
I ...
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enable window 'snap' in 12.04 (window maximation on drag to edge)
I have recently updated to 12.04. The feature which maximises the window if dragged to the upper screen edge, taking the right half if dragged to the right edge and so on, is now missing. (I'm coming ...
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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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Mutter: Global menu integration
Is it possible to have Mutter merge the title bar of maximized windows and the panel, like happens with Compiz and Metacity? I want to try to replace Metacity with Mutter in Unity 2D, and so far it ...
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open nautilus as new tab in 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 if I ...
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Can't disable active window's transparency | Hover effect not working
I'm having a problem right now with my window frames' opacity settings.
For some reason the active window very often (but not always) has a half-transparent title bar. This is really distracting but ...
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Force disable snapping windows
How can I reliably disable snapping windows? When I drag a window around by its titlebar and near the upper edge, it tints and wants to maximize if I let go of the mouse then (trying to park my app ...
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Look for a tiling window manager, 2D, enabling shortcuts [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a shortcut to tile windows to left or right side of the screen?
I am still struggling in looking for a tiling window manager.
What I need is not complicated, I ...
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How to start xmonad?
I am under GNOME, and a Ubuntu 11.10 as virtual machine, which does not enable 3D accelaration.
I just downloaded xmonad via software center.
I guess the first step is to replace the current window ...
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Compizconfig Grid doesn't work under Ubuntu as virtual machine
I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 as virtual machine within Mac.
I have installed VM tools.
The approach in this link of Compizconfig Grid, which worked in my previous laptop where Ubuntu was not a ...
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Making gnome-shell default [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I change the default session for when using auto-logins?
Any way to make gnome-shell as default window manager other than adding
gnome-shell --replace' with in ...
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Xen 4.1 + NVidia driver = Unity has no window decorations [closed]
I am running Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity. I installed XEN and booted its kernel. The machine booted normally. However, when I started Unity (3D), there were no window decorations.
I tried Unity 2D and ...
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run a script on window switch (on alt-tabbing into/outof a particular app) [closed]
I'd like to run a script whenever I switch into or out of a window.
Specifically, I have a "toggle touchpad on/off" script, which i want to run whenever I switch into or out of gvim.
so, is there ...
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Resize window to half width
Is there an easy / convenient way to resize any window on Kubuntu to half width of the screen?
With todays wide screen monitors, I have enough space to fit two windows side by side, but I never do ...
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trouble while installing KWin window manager
I installed the Kde windows manager in ubuntu 12.04 using the command:
sudo apt-get install kde-window-manager
the installation was succesful.
I then logged out and in the login screen only ubuntu, ...
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Hotkey for placing two windows
Oftentimes it is desirable to let two windows each consume exactly half of the screen. I want to do this with emacs and the terminal so that I can look up C documentation while coding.
How could I ...
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How to make windows open on same desktop as their parent? [closed]
It is really annoying when dialogs and other windows that 'belong' to window on other desktop are being opened on the desktop I'm currently working on... Is there a way to make Unity/Compiz open it on ...
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Universal Alt-Tab
frequently, I am playing a game and someone I would like to chat with comes online but I am unable to switch to the chat winndows because the game is grabbing my mouse. In windows, I can just alt-tab ...
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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
-- ...
