Questions tagged [window]
Questions relating to the behaviour of application windows, this is a very generic tag and you should consider also adding tags specific to your question.
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Moving window to smaller monitor: in 23.04 the window needs to be small enough to fit within the smaller monitor
In Xubuntu 22.10 I could drag a program/window from my main (large) monitor to either of my (same sized) smaller monitors, and it didn't matter what size the program/window originally was. If larger ...
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Certain Windows Not Popping Up
So I am new to Ubuntu 22.04.2, just switched over from Windows 10 earlier this year, and I've been having an issue lately.
I have no idea what I've done or what happened but for the past few weeks I'...
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In 23.04, when switching virtual desktops, the window that receives focus seems to be the root window, not the last application from that desktop
In previous versions, when switching virtual desktops focus was attached to the last window focused on such desktop.
In 23.04 (running Gnome), when I switch virtual desktops the focus seems to always ...
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Disabling Fullscreen also disables Night light [Problem]
When I'm playing videogames (for example Minecraft), whenever I turn on Fullscreen mode and then I turn it off (so going to Windowed mode) it disables Night light for some reason.
If I then go to ...
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Finding out all running GUI applications
There are some old questions similar to this; however, I haven't found a way to list and optionally close applications that are also minimized to system tray.
During a session log out in Windows, ...
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Dead zone on desktop after upgrade to 23.04
After upgrading to Ubuntu 23.04 I've got a dead zone in the top right of my desktop. If I put a GNOME window over the area it works fine, but if I put any other window (browser, game, anything) it ...
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Ubuntu 23.04 Window Focus
I just upgraded from 22.04 to 23.04. On 22.04 I could click on a window title and it would raise it and give focus. I'm not getting that on 23.04. I need to actually select with button 1 and move the ...
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Unable to display systray icon's menu for a Wine application
In previous versions of Ubuntu we did not have this problem. Now, after the update from Ubuntu 22.10 to 23.04 (GNOME / Xorg), a Wine application that is minimized to system tray does have its icon ...
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Some applications are not focused when clicked on their Title Bar
This problem started after upgrade from Ubuntu 22.10 to 23.04.
For example, open gnome-terminal (Terminal) and usb-creator-gtk (Startup Disk Creator). Partially overlap these two windows and allow the ...
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Some applications do not remember window state
After upgrading from Ubuntu Desktop 22.10 to 23.04, I noticed that some applications do not remember the window state after they are restarted.
For example, start Text Editor, Thunderbird, Thunar, ...
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View split on top/bottom in Ubuntu 22.04
In Ubuntu 22.04 one can press super+left/right to snap windows to the left/right side of the screen. I want to do the same but with up and down which right now maximaze/umaximaze windows. Is this ...
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Firefox can't resize window in KDE (KUbuntu 18.04)
There's a known bug in Firefox in which the window cannot be resized, see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1461280. This is supposedly closed however I am experiencing it on KUbuntu 18.04 ...
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I've disabled "Activate the window menu," shortcut but it STILL opens up the window menu when you press Super + Right-Click
When I'm viewing an application on Ubuntu 22.04, I keep getting a popup.
To reproduce the problem: open any application, then hold down the super key and press right click on your mouse (super + right)...
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Audio playback issues and GUI programs crashing randomly
I'm having some issues with audio playback and program crashes on Ubuntu 22.04, Pulse Audio.
I've uninstalled some random stuff that I have installed recently off of my disk (some
python stuff and ...
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Linux: Programs do not refresh unless I move the window
I have the following problem: after a while I use the computer (usually it is turned on for days and days) it can happen that a program (usually VSCode or chome) does not refresh (If I type something ...
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How to do hover to focus AND allow keyboard switching via ctrl tab etc?
You use gnome tweaks to turn on hover to focus. But then you can not also use keyboard shortcuts to change between windows AND type in the other windows. You have to then use the mouse to hover over ...
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Ubuntu 22.10 don't focus new "sub-windows"
This is a weird one that I can't seem to find any solutions to. When I launch a sub-window, for example; when I press the "Open Folder" button in VS Code or just "Open in Terminal" ...
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Alt+Space window menu to be circular
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 with kernel 5.15.0-60-generic. I would like to be able to press Up and highlight Close when I press Alt+Space in any window in Ubuntu desktop.
How can I achieve this?
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Remmina Locked in Full Screen Mode
From time to time, a Remmina remote window will automatically load in full screen mode and cannot be minimized and must be closed to remove it from the screen on the desktop. I have seen this occur on ...
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How do I set windows to minimize into the corner of the Dock instead of app icons?
There is a Minimize windows into application icon option in OS X.
If it's enabled there is behavior like in Ubuntu. On app window minimization windows minimize into app icons, but when it's disabled ...
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how can I make windows appear on unfocused monitor
I am on ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS on the gnome window manager and have became very annoyed over a feature - or absence of a feature, where when I open a new window it covers up whatever I am on, when there ...
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Terminal minimizing whena an other window is clicked
I am running a maximized window (ROS) and in the foreground i have a compromized terminal.
What i want is to click and check boxes in the main Program (ROS), without the terminal minimizing.
How do i ...
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Steam snap doesn't scale properly. How do you change launch parameters when even .desktop files for snaps are write-protected?
The current Steam snap renders badly with fractional scaling enabled. I want to launch it with GDK_SCALE=2 but it's apparently not possible to edit snap apps' .desktop files.
Any ideas how I could go ...
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Window management with numpad on Ubuntu 22.04
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 now, and used to use Ubuntu 16.04 a long time ago on which I add a GNOME extension, that I don't recall the name, that allows you to use a more powerfull window management tool ...
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How can I automatically resize a window to 1/4 of the screen and snap it to a corner in Ubuntu 22.04?
I wrote this popular answer for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04, but now it won't work on Ubuntu 22.04 due to Wayland.
https://github.com/negesti/gnome-shell-extensions-negesti#wayland--wnck:
Because of this ...
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missing menubars in all applications Ubuntu 22.04
Recently, all the top menubars in all applications have disappeared. Below are examples from Konsole and Libreoffice; the same absence of the top menubar appears in all applications without any ...
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How to check out which windowing system am I using on ubuntu 22.04 in command line now?
I've tried $GDMSESSION but it just outputs 'ubuntu.', not showing which windowing system like x11 or wayland?
How do I determine which am I using? Wayland or X11 only in 'command line' simply?
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How to fix the window title for an application (Android Studio)?
I am running the latest Android Studio version on Ubuntu 22.04.1 (Wayland). The corresponding .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications looks like this:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
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Firefox 107.0 download
I cannot reduce the size of the download window in Firefox. This started when the 107.0 version came out. Has anyone noticed this?
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Moving windows lagging
I have a massive computer with
100+GB RAM
16CPUs(32Threads)
1TB SSD
3 Full HD Monitors
NVidia Graphics card
But after about 1 hour of usage everything works fine, except moving windows on the screen....
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Hide Text on Window Title Headers (Gnome)
I need to hide the text on the window title headers, which usually shows the application name. It is disruptive to me because I have many window applications running in parallel on the same screen and ...
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Gnome New Windows not focused automatically
This started happening for me in Ubuntu 22.10 Whenever I open a new window with a shortcut, for example I use the right ALT to open the terminal, the focus does not go to that newly opened windows, ...
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Zoom: window content freezes for participants
When using the Zoom video conference tool under Ubuntu, we sometimes encounter the following problem: The content of a window changes, but after a while, the other participants don't see the changes ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 maximises my windows by default
Ubuntu 22.04 maximises my windows by default
How do I stop this practice? Maximised windows hides z-order and is something that M$ uses
Mick
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gedit will not open a new tab for when opening a second document and onwards
I am puzzled by the behaviour of gedit. I have three different machines and while in two of them I have the desired results (after opening a document with gedit the next ones are opened in tabs), in ...
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KDE: minimize a window without putting the window on the bottom of windows list
Using KDE System Settings I have set a hotkey for minimizing the currently active window.
The behavior I am used to is: I press Super+Z, window minimizes, when I press Alt+Tab, I switch back to last ...
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strange notification window misplacement after reawakening on Ubuntu Mate 20.04
I have Ubuntu Mate 20.04 running on my Notebook.
Sometimes the notification message bubble/window, which normally displays at the top right edge of the screen just below the bar, is misplaced. It ...
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Stacking windows without a window manager
(Ubuntu 22.04.)
I suppose the following is somewhat trivial with a window manager, but I couldn't get used to window managers yet.
This is what I often need in my current workflow: I have a code ...
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Places and Volumes do not open windows anymore
it's strange, for some time now the disks displayed in the dock no longer open windows. The trash icon do.
The same problem has the gnome-extension Places. On a click, I see in the status bar a ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 VM unable to install on Gen 2 Hyper-V (Win 11 Host)
has anybody managed to install Ubuntu 18.04 VM on Gen 2 Hyper-V? I received this error message 1 after Ubuntu logo showed up 1. I am able to install Ubuntu 18.04 on Gen 1 Hyper-V and Ubuntu 20.04 on ...
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If I have one window "always on top" and I change language when writing in another window, focus always goes to the "always on top window"
If I select the "always on top" option in one window and then I change language when writing in another window, focus always goes to the "always on top" window. It is very annoying ...
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How to configure focus-follows-mouse
Upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 yesterday. I like windows to gain focus when the mouse is over the window (focus on hover) and remain there even if your pointer is moved to the desktop. I'm unable ...
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In Unity, how to see the "real window" when being dragged with the mouse?
In Unity, while moving a window, its "shadow" moves first, then, when the mouse is released, it's actually moved to the desired position.
Is there a way to have the actual window moving, ...
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Can I configure ubuntu to open all application in maximized state?
Can I force Ubuntu 22.04 to open all applications in the maximized state?
I'm using these apps:
Terminal
Files
VS Code
Text Editor
Chrome
And right now, I should maximize each of them after opening, ...
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Ubuntu not displaying icon for pygame window even though code is correct
Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Python 3.8
PyCharm 2022.2.1 (Community Edition)
I asked this question in stackoverflow but they say it's a system problem
I'm trying to create a window and have an icon with title ...
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Window Tiling columns per monitor for Ubuntu
I have WinTile by FMStrat (found here) and I'm enjoying it.
However, it seems as if it is not possible to have 3 columns on one screen and 2 columns on the other. Is there a way to just enable the ...
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background on screen and terminal "window" in wrong place
I use Ubuntu 20.04 on a Linux x86_64 system. Two questions.
Recently the background on my screen started showing a lot of little white boxes with names of many files in my home directory. This is ...
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Weird double menu bars
I fixed some problem with my Ubuntu install (display sometimes not waking up after sleep) and in the process somehow I managed to bring GNOME into a state where some windows, but not all have these ...
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How to hide .directory on Desktop?
After upgrading to Ubuntu 20, I noticed there's now a .directory file on my Desktop with the content:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=user-desktop
Type=Directory
As I hate clutter, I deleted it. ...
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How to close all windows instantly in a workspace in Ubuntu 22.04 with gnome
It would be really convenient if there is an instant way to do this
without having to manually close the windows to delete a workspace
Desktop Enviroment : GNOME Shell 42.1
Ubuntu 22.04
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