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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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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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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How to show only the active desktop's applications in the taskbar? (Lubuntu 18.10)
The default setting is to show all open applications in the taskbar regardless of active desktop. I wish to show only the windows in the active desktop in that desktop's taskbar. How do I show only ...
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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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How to make firefox main windows have no decorations using devilspie?
First off, I can't run Compiz. It doesn't work with my old ati.
I'm trying to make all firefox main windows have no decorations.
Here's the rule:
( if
( and
( is ( application_name ) "Firefox" )
(...
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Cannot tile the "Files" window to the left or right side by pressing Super + Left/Right keys very often
Environment:
Hardware: A laptop and a standalone monitor connected;
OS: Ubuntu 18.04
I'm very fond of the function to tile windows by side (https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/shell-windows-...
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How to start a program always on second monitor
I tried to Google and to browse/search the questions but with no luck.
I have Xubuntu 12.10 installed and extended desktop is working great (Intel display driver). The problem is that I want to start ...
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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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Can a window manager force full-screen window for a program that lacks this option by itself?
I like the way Foxit Reader can change the color of both pdf text background and font; I have books in pdf format that I need to read on the laptop and I want to control the colors of text area. (I ...
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How can one get executable file-path for a window which is launched as FlatPak application?
I know that
xprop | awk '/PID/ {print $3}' | xargs ps
and
xprop | awk '/COMMAND/ {print $4}' | xargs which
work great with GUI applications which are deb-packaged, AppImage'd or Snap'd.
But this ...
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Switching Window Manager without Logging-out
I run both XFCE's xfwm and awesome. I'm usually in awesome but I occasionally have to run some applications that don't play nicely at all with tiling window managers.
I'm looking for a way to switch ...
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"stick" button behavior in title bar?
I noticed that in Xubuntus (Xfce) windows manager settings there's an option to show a "stick" button in the title bar of application windows.
Out of curiosity I enabled it (moved from hidden to ...
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How to get PID of shell running in a terminal window under mouse?
Though similar questions asked before in this forum here , here and here, my question is different. I want to get PID of a running bash process in gnome terminal.
Note: Suggested link which posted ...
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Don't raise window on click (while hold)
It seems that Compiz support forum is used for spam, and as I noticed similar questions answered here, I thought it'd be best for me to ask here
I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 and window manager uses Compiz
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Compiz Grid/Put Not Working After Upgrading from 17.04 to 17.10 [duplicate]
On Ubuntu 17.04, I had CompizConfig set up so that Ctrl+Alt+Key pad number would place the current window into the appropriate quarter/half of the screen.
This is not working after upgrading to 17.10....
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Xubuntu 13.10 new app windows open with buttons at top of frame concealed
In Xubuntu 13.10, many apps, such as Bluefish, Calibre and Firefox, when launched put their window off-kilter, high and to the right, so the top of the window's frame is concealed. Pressing {Alt-...
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How do I drag-and-drop a file into a window that's not in the foreground?
In Windows, if I'm dragging a file or a piece of text and I want to want to drop it into a window that's currently not in the foreground I can simply hover over that window on the task bar and the ...
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How do I remove the window borders from modal dialogs in Cinnamon?
System: Ubuntu 13.04, with Cinnamon 1.8.
Whenever a modal dialog like the one below (password prompt in GDebi) pops up, it always has an annoying border around it. Is there any way to fix this?
I ...
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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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Can Gnome Terminal set WM_URGENT?
I'd like for gnome terminal to set the WM_URGENT window manager hint on bell. Is this possible?
This bug report suggests it's not but does anyone know another way.
Basically I'm running XMonad under ...
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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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How do you change the resize increment?
I currently have my
<distance name = "left/right/bottom/whatever_width" value = 0\>
so I have to use Alt+F8 to resize windows. Unfortunately, this is a bit cumbersome because the resize ...
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How to change window atributtes in Wayland?
I want to write an script that sets the attributes of certain windows to 'always in top'.
This command is supposed to work on X11: wmctrl -r "window title" -b add,above
But it does not work ...
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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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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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Desktop icons on left screen go down into black hole
This is a self-answered question. See my answer below.
Here is my multi-monitor configuration:
$ xrandr --current | grep " connected"
HDMI-0 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x ...
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Add window padding/spacing
Is there an easy way to add window padding/spacing on Ubuntu 18.04
See the image below for reference/example!
And can you do it without a custom Window Manager like i3?
Thanks!
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Gnome/Metacity: Prevent windows from stealing focus when another window is closed
Normally when I open applications A, B, C (in that order), if I then close C, focus shifts to B. This is the default behavior and this is desirable to me.
However, it seems that Slack breaks this ...
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Text partially disappearing in many applications after unlocking on Xubuntu
Ever since I updated to the new Xubuntu version (16) I have two behaviours:
sometimes I have to switch tty after unlocking the Laptop to make my mouse cursor appear again. I heard it is related to ...
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Making window moves/drags as wireframes in LXDE?
I'm using x2go for remote desktop management over a relatively high latency link, using Windows and Linux clients, and the host/server is Lubuntu 14.04.
I've managed to optimize most of the settings, ...
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Xubuntu Alt+Tab behavior
I'm using Xubuntu 14.04 and I want to change the Alt+Tab behavior. In Xubuntu, it just has the option to alternate between applications, but I prefer something like Gnome Shell or Unity, that have the ...
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Manual UI scaling for non Unity environments
14.04 and Unity now offer UI Scaling. But what if I am not running Unity? In this case I am running Awesome Window Manager. How can I get my applications to scale the way they do when I am running ...
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How to end X session?
Is there a generic way to orderly end X session regardless of display mangager or window manager?
More specifically, I use different windows managers for different users, and after reboot one user ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 window management bug with Grid/Put and multiple displays
In Ubuntu CompizConfig Settings Manager, there are two very useful window management plugins.
"Grid" does essentially the same thing (and then some) that Windows Aero "snap" does. Via mouse actions ...
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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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Is there a way to get the Unity title bar behavior and NOTHING ELSE? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to remove maximized window controls/title from top panel in Unity
I know how to get app menus in the panel. I like the fact that in Unity, the top panel ...
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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 to programatically manipulate application windows?
Anyone know a library, preferably for ruby or python, that will let you access a list of open applications and let you manipulate them? All I really want to be able to do is change their geometry and ...
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XFCE Keyboard shortcut to place active window at the back (or minimize)
Is it possible to have a keyboard shortcut instead of middle-clicking the menu bar to lower windows behind all the others? Like the second answer to this question, but in XFCE instead of Unity.
In ...
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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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What are the major differences between Fluxbox and Blackbox?
I'm considering switching to either Fluxbox or Blackbox as my window manager, but I'm not really sure which one to go with.
Are there any major differences between the two ?
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17.04 How to set default window screen position
Is it possible to set the default window position when an app is opened/launched from coords 0,0 to something else like:
(saved) - previously opened coords
(custom) custom x,y coords
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How to make equally sized windows in corners of the screen?
I recently saw this answer to a great question, and I wondered, is this also possible on Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18 and GDM, as well as on Compiz as the answer to that question shows?
But the ...
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Disable window decoration for specific applications
Is there a way to configure the window manager to disable window decorations (title bar, preferably no borders either) to specific applications (based on the name of the app, title of the window, or ...
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Getting the name of the process, that corresponds to the active window
How can it be done using Python in Ubuntu?
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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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Frozen window carcass that doesn't want to leave
I have this problem:
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Seems like something has frozen. This happens after every reboot now. How do I track what is frozen and what to kill?
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How can I find windows of a specific application and place them into a grid?
I'm trying to write a script to identify all open chrome windows and move them into a grid layout on a large screen
I'm not sure how to find out what the best resolutions would be so I was going to ...
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Customize KDE tiling grid
In KDE, when the user is moving a window around with the mouse and she touches a border of the screen, a shadow appears showing the position the window will occupy if the user drops it there.
When ...
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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 ...