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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How to determine which window manager (and desktop environment) 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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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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How do I increase the resize margin on windows?
It takes me about 5 tries to resize a window on my computer.
Is there a way to increase the resize margin on the edge of windows?
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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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How do I set focus follows mouse?
Is there a way to set up "focus follows mouse" behavior in Unity?
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What is the difference between a desktop environment and a window manager?
I'm having a really hard time trying to understand what the differences between a desktop environment and a window manager are?
EDIT: From this article by Jack Wallen:
There are basically three ...
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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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Moving windows from the keyboard
Is it possible to move windows from the keyboard itself without touching the mouse?
I know I can do a Alt + Left Click and drag the window, however I am hoping there is something I can use to move it ...
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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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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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Switching window manager/desktop environments?
In general what is the approach to switch the desktop environment or window manager on Ubuntu? The main difference between stock Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Lubuntu is supposedly the use of Unity vs. KDE vs. ...
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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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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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How do I move child windows without moving or minimizing parent in GNOME 3?
I have Ubuntu 17.10 with GNOME 3.
What happens:
I have (for example) LibreOffice Calc open, with some data columns in it. I highlight the columns I want to chart, then I select INSERT > CHART. The ...
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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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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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Can I minimize a window from the command line?
I would like to be able to choose any already-open window and minimize it from the command line. Is this possible?
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How do I display two windows as split screen? [duplicate]
I have two open programs, but I want to view both of them at the same time. Dragging and adjusting them manually takes time, and I might have to do this every day. Is there any shortcut for doing this ...
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How can I make the draggable window border thicker, without changing the appearance?
When you want to resize a window in gnome (as well as in other systems) you can click-and-hold at the window's border and than drag it. The problem is (and do correct me if I'm wrong here) that the ...
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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.
I have reinstalled lightdm.
I have restarted lightdm.
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Is it possible to have four equally sized windows on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?
It is common to have two equally separated windows by either dragging each window to one side of the screen or Ctrl+Super+←/→, but I want to divide my screen into four quarters.
I have encounterd ...
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Remove title bar and borders on maximized windows in Kubuntu
In gnome-shell there is an extension that removes the window borders, close buttons, title bar, etc on maximized windows to save screen real estate.
How can this behavior be replicated in KDE?
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How to disable window move with alt + left mouse button? [duplicate]
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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Fresh install of Ubuntu with i3wm
I would like to use the i3 Window Manager with Ubuntu and not Unity.
Since I am going to do a fresh install Id like to keep the bloat to a minimum.
Should I just install it normally with the ...
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Alt-Tab does not switch [duplicate]
Since upgrading to 12.04, my alt-tab occasionally does not work. I cannot determine the symptoms that lead to it, but there are some windows that just decide not to show. What happens is I alt-tab to ...
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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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Is there a shortcut to tile windows to left or right side of the screen?
As Compiz Grid is not supported in ubuntu-2d, I am looking for alternative to tile windows.
This video shows that xfce4 and xfwm4 can snap windows to a part of the screen. I would like to do that by ...
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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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How do I arrange my windows automatically?
Is there some equivalent of Windows' "Tile Windows" in Ubuntu?
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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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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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How to close, minimize, and maximize a specified window from Terminal?
I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18 and I am wondering if there is a way from Terminal to close, minimize, unminimize, maximize, and unmaximize specified windows?
Note - I've looked at ...
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How do I disable auto-maximizing of newly launched windows in GNOME?
Each time I open any application, it zooms to fill-up the entire desktop and so I am always forced to use "Unmaximize" using Alt+Space menu.
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How do I permanently change window titles?
Which files are involved in generating the window title? For example, if you open Rhythmbox, you see the program name as the window title. But it’s not generated by the .desktop file. Which file(s) do ...
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How to show (raise) all windows of an application?
I have an application using multiple windows. How can I quickly bring all the windows of that application to the foreground?
When I scroll through the applications with the scroll-wheel it only ...
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HUD in other window managers (especially xmonad)
It seems that HUD (Heads Up Display) is tightly tied to Unity. However I just use xmonad as a window manager, especially I don't use unity.
Is there a way to use HUD within xmonad (or more generally ...
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How do I disable the window resizing when accidentally touching one of the screen edges in GNOME 3?
In Ubuntu 18.04, when moving the windows there is a resize effect that occurs when accidentally touching one of the screen edges. This control was available in CCSM and Ubuntu Tweak in previous ...
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Resizing windows to a particular width and height instantly
For some reason, I wish to resize a window to a very large size, 4-5 times larger than my screen size. For now, I am doing it manually by moving the entire window but one corner out of the screen and ...
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How can I switch between windows of the same application?
I often have more than ten windows open at the same time and some of them are of the same applications, notably gnome-terminal.
Often when I am currently on one terminal, I just want to get to ...
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How to change the 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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Volume sound and screen brightness controls not working
Recently I have installed i3 windows manager.
The problem is that the footnote keys to control the volume and brightness don't work.
How can I solve this?
And how can I bind the mod key to the Win ...
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Why are windows going to top left of the screen?
Recently I noticed all the new windows are popping up in the top left. This is annoying because the top bar blocks the title bar of the new window. See screenshot of Tunesviewer with Firefox, ...
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How do I get Aero Snap in Unity 2D?
I really miss the "Aero Snap" window snapping feature present in Unity 3D. Is there any way I can get it, or an alternative to it, in Unity 2D?
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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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Switching to i3 in 18.04
I installed i3 with sudo apt-get install i3. But if I try to launch it via terminal, it says another window manager is running. In older versions of Ubuntu, there was a round button at the login ...
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How to set Alt+mouse drag to move the window and Ctrl+mouse to resize the window unity (fresh install of 20.04)
I fresh installed ubuntu 20.04 today and found the alt+mouse drag for move and ctrl+mouse drag for resize doesn't work. How can I turn the function on? (I don't know why ubuntu people didn't set it ...
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Make chrome app windows be always on top
Simply put: Is there any way to make chrome app windows have the always on top button when right clicking them?
I am using xubuntu 14.04, and google-chrome dev. Selecting 'use system title bar and ...
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Is there a keybind to minimize all windows, without a toggle?
I know about the show desktop keybind (default Ctrl+Alt+D), which I use often enough. However, I'm looking for a way to minimize all windows without activating "show desktop".
I'm on a default ...
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Can I minimize a window into a box on Unity?
On Irix's 4Dwm, there was an ability to minimise windows into a box (contrary to the task bar used by modern window managers). I have seen this also on an old HPUX.
See the "console" square in the ...
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What causes the deviation in the wmctrl window move command
About wmctrl
With wmctrl (not installed by default), we can get information on windows, their id, their geometry, the pid they belong to etc. We can also move or resize windows with several commands. ...