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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How to Recompile DWM?
I am about to run sudo apt-get install dwm on ubuntu 12.04.
When I was on arch linux dwm was installed to a folder and recompiled in the folder when you made changes to it. (Edit settings). I am ...
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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 do I enable mouseover window focusing? [duplicate]
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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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How do I focus an “urgent” application?
Sometimes applications will wiggle in the launcher and have a blue triangle. (See compiz config settings for Unity.)
How can I set a keyboard command to bring that application to the front in Ubuntu ...
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Alt+tab on Fluxbox [closed]
I've been using fluxbox on my netbook, and have been very pleased. That is, with everything but one feature. I would really like it if I could use fluxbox with the added functionality that when I use ...
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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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“Show All Windows” Function Doesn't Work (Sometimes) When Used Multiple Times Successively [closed]
My PC runs Ubuntu 11.10 and Gnome 3 (Unity isn't disabled; I set Gnome 3 to load by default on startup).
I don't know what this feature is called - - pressing the Windows or Super button on keyboard ...
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Problem with window manager?
I have installed ubuntu server 11.10 on my pc. But I decided to install an ubuntu-desktop package as I would like to have a possibility to start GUI when I would need it. So I ran command:
sudo ...
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Toggle horizontal, vertical and full window maximization within Unity?
I want to toggle windows between:
horizontal maximized <-> horizontal unmaximized ALT+F7
vetical maximized <-> vertical unmaximized ALT+F6
(both) maximized <-> (both) unmaximized ...
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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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Window colors/shades/decoarations/whatever per instance [closed]
Sometimes I open several instances of one program at the same time and have to switch between them every few seconds and get totally confused as to which is which (they all display similar ...
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How to disable alt+click from moving windows in Unity 2D?
How can I disable the alt+click combination from moving windows in Ubuntu 11.10 (unity-2d)?
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is there a way to turn off the drag to maximize thing? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to turn off Compiz's “drag to maximize” behaviour?
when you move a window in 11.04 classic desktop and the mouse goes over the top of the window it ...
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Run a GUI program at startup on top of X with no window manager
I want to start a program on top of X after startup. I want no desktop manager, nor window manager, but I just want to start a single program like Firefox after startup.
Is there a standard way to do ...
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Moving Windows from left to right screen in Unity
I find myself moving windows around a bit in my two-monitor setup (oneiric, unity, twinview). Is there an easy way to move a windows from the left to the right monitor. I know I can move applications ...
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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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How can I get my windows to remember the last window location? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Remember last window location
I want to ask the same question for Ubuntu 11.10... how can I configure Ubuntu 11.10 to start all program windows at the last window ...
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Expo and Workspace shortcut Super + S not working
It says here and here that the keyboard shortcut for expo mode of all windows, while zooming out on workspaces, is Super+S.
However, when I push the command it just zooms out the workspaces; it does ...
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How to drag windows between 2 X servers?
I have seen this question, and I would like something similar.
When a new window is opened, I would like it to be shown on my primary monitor. Then if there is a need, I would drag it to the ...
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Help with compiz window borders
I tried to make a small change in my Compiz settings, and set off a whole chain of chaos.
I don't like the application switcher that I had, that switched between whole applications on Alt-tab rather ...
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11.10 : no window manager, no applications, just tty
logged into my ubuntu account and found myself on a screen with just my desktop background and nothing else.
pressing the volume buttons displays the indicator, and i can get to a tty session but i ...
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Different window managers on different screens?
Is it possible to run different window managers on different screens?
Example, I want to run a tiling window manager (such as awesome) on one screen, and then I would like to run a stacking window ...
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How to determine which window manager is running
Is there any way (such as a command or environmental variable) to determine what window manager is the one actively running in the current session?
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Window manager selection not working for one user [closed]
For only one user on the system, the window manager selection in the login screen of ubuntu 11.04 is not working. Irrespective of what I select (I have window maker also installed), unity is the one ...
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How do I eliminate the extra title bar?
I'm using Oneiric 11.10, Unity 2D, and compiz (modifying some ccsm settings); I've activated the effects plug-in on ccsm, and when I apply the changes by typing in the terminal compiz --replace, I get ...
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How to only place/size *first* matching window?
Using 11.04 with the Unity interface and Compiz 3D, via the CompizConfig Settings Manager (ccsm, not installed by default but very useful) I can use the "Place Windows" plug-in to set the default ...
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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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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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Closing one window sends others to the background
After updating to 11.10, if I have a few non-fullscreen windows on top of a fullscreen window, if I close one of the non-fullscreen windows, the other non-fullscreen windows are pushed behind the ...
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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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How to prevent a program from starting minimized? [closed]
I have done a fresh install of 11.10 64 bit, everything is fine bar a little detail: whenever I start my mail client (claws mail 3.7.9, in case this is relevant) the window is minimised [so I have to ...
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How do I enable Alt + middle mouse button window resizing in Xubuntu?
As of the 11.10 release I've switched from vanilla Ubuntu to Xubuntu for a plethora of reasons. Thus far I'm loving XFCE and have nearly everything configured the way I like it. The one thing that's ...
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How to disable window move with alt + left mouse button?
I have problem with this function because i work in Maya and other 3D applications that use this key combination... This option on Ubuntu 11.04 was in "window" section so i could change it to ...
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How to make terminal windows half-transparent in Unity 2d?
That's it. I want to have terminal windows to be (half-) transparent in Unity 2d without wasting too much resources.
This question has arisen after an update from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10, after which ...
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I cant disable compiz window management options? [closed]
Whenever I un-check the window re-size option, and a few other options in CCSM, they automatically check themselves back on, and my choice is disregarded. What gives? How do I make my choices stick?
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How to prevent launcher from influencing window placement?
As I understand it, in Ubuntu 11.04 setting the AutoHide setting on Compiz Config - Unity (see here) not only hid the launcher but prevented the launcher from influencing window placement.
However, ...
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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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How do I set focus follows mouse?
Is there a way to set up "focus follows mouse" behavior in Ubuntu 11.10, 12.04, and 12.10 Unity?
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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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Ubuntu 11.10 Window Configuration [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Application windows do not fit on the screen
i have a netbook with 1024x568 resolution. But some windows don't fit to the screen.
They are to big.
How to change that
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How can I use Awesome WM with GNOME?
I followed the all the instructions I could find--the ones on the Awesome wiki, and the ones on the Arch linux wiki, but so far none have really worked. I usually get an error while trying to log in ...
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How can I make Chrome follow my window focus settings? [closed]
I run my desktops with pointer focus (that is, focus is based on mouse position). I've been doing that for literally decades, so I'm not stopping now. In that model, I absolutely do not want ...
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Change the window manager unity-2d launches on login
As opposed to this question, I'd like to change the window manager that unity-2d launches when logging in. IOW, when I select a "Unity 2d" session at the greeter screen and log in, I want to change ...
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How do I stop the Unity launcher from hiding behind other windows?
The Unity launcher tends to put itself in the background of any windows sometimes.
It does not occur on startup, just randomly after some hours of usage.
How do I bring it back to front without ...
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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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Is there a way that Unity can remember which terminal window had focus and was raised?
I use a lot of terminal windows (at least three, up to 5 or 6).
If I am working in one of them, and switch to another app via the unity launcher (say the web browser), and then come back to the ...
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Focus a window without bringing the window forward
Is there a way to focus a certain window under Gnome without bringing the window up?
Background:
I'm creating a script to type an arbitrary sequence characters on a certain window/application. With ...
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How to move windows to another workspace without switching workspace?
XFCE supports a hotkey to move a window to another workspace.
In fact this does two things:
It moves the window to the new workspace.
switches to this workspace.
I'm trying to disable this ...
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Do I need a desktop to run a GUI?
I am setting up a light weight VM, following the guide in the Ubuntu Documentation
What I want to be able to do is launch a GUI application. I don't need / want anything on the desktop.
First I ...
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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 ...
