Questions tagged [window-management]
Window management is the placement of application windows.
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Bug with window resizing
I have reproduced this on both 23.10 and the not yet released 24.04.
What happens is when you try to maximize a window by dragging it upwards, The system shows two "outlines" instead of one....
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Is there a script (or software) to open an application window on a specific viewport and position?
So, I have 8 virtual Desktops in Unity (with Compiz) because I have many projects I'm working on simultaneously.
Problem is, every time I need to reboot or accidentally close Chrome (which ...
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Keyboard shortcut to resize window to full-screen (but not over unity dock)
Is there a keyboard shortcut, or a way of defining a keyboard shortcut, that'll resize current window to take up whole screen except the unity dock?
(yes, I know I can make the unity dock stay always-...
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Gnome shell "show desktop" shortcut
I been thinking of anyone could guide me up, that in ubuntu 11.10 with gnome 3,
there is a option ctrl+alt+d to show the desktop by minimizing the current window.
What I was thinking was that if I ...
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What do "Tile Groups" do?
Ubuntu 23.10 ships with a GNOME Shell extension named Tiling Assistant. It can be installed with this command:
sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant
It adds these settings to ...
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Gnome 45 / Ubuntu 23.10 focusing windows I didn't click
Just upgraded to Ubuntu 23.10 / Gnome 45. It appears that now when I click on an unfocused window that I have snapped to one side of the screen, it automatically focuses another window that is open, ...
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Gnome keyboard shortcut not executing command
I have a one-liner which brings a given window to the front. In this case, IntelliJ:
xdotool windowactivate $(wmctrl -lx | grep jetbrains | awk '{ print $1 }')
This works as expected when run via a ...
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Where is the config file for setting the windows size in Ubuntu Desktop
I want to set the windows size in bash script but I don't know which command is used to set the windows size.
When open the File Browser in Ubuntu Desktop, and then change the Windows size of the File ...
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Find out the application under the mouse
It often happens to me, that an application pops up a question and I wonder to which exact application this window belongs, because if I look in the Launcher there is no application that currently has ...
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wmctrl - focus most recent window of an app
I've created some shortcuts mimicking the Unity's Mod4 + num behavior.
wmctrl -xa Sublime || subl
What I don't like, is that once sublime is running, it always focuses the first opened window. I'd ...
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Is there a theme with a short or transparent title bar?
Is there any theme, under any ubuntu desktop or window manager,
that has the feature illustrated in the image below, where the title bar doesn't occupy the whole width, but is instead as short as the ...
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How do I "alt-tab" between windows using Gnome 3?
All of the references I've found for Gnome 3 keyboard shortcuts list that alt+tab switches between applications and alt+` switches between windows (some actually say alt+~, but I think they're ...
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Is it possible to put active window in background?
A feature that was useful to me was the ability to have the active window in background.
For instance, you may want to have a small window in foreground while typing on libreoffice in full screen.
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How to force Onboard appear on top of fullscreen apps in a tablet running Ubuntu?
Whenever Okular is fullscreen, there is no way to make Onboard remain on top of Okular.
This behavior makes it impossible to annotate a fullscreen document (opened in Okular) in a touch screen tablet ...
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How do I remove the gap around maximized Emacs frame on KDE?
I am using Emacs on Kubuntu. On startup, I maximize my Emacs frame with this command in my init.el:
(custom-set-variables
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'(initial-frame-alist (quote ((fullscreen . maximized)))))
This works, ...
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<Super>-Right for tile window right does not work in Xubuntu 22.04
Xubuntu 22.04
I use super-left and super-right a lot on my widescreen monitor. Super-left to tile a window to left half of screen works fine. Super-right does not do anything. I've not changed any ...
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Polkit authentication dialog locks focus
I'm using XFCE as desktop manager with XFWM as the window manager. Whenever an application uses polkit (or at least that's what I think it is) for authentication, the password dialog locks focus, so ...
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How can I move application windows with shortcut keys to the four quadrants of the screen in Ubuntu Mate 20?
I just installed Ubuntu 20 with the Mate desktop environment. As I have a 4K monitor, I'd like to move application windows quickly using shortcut keys so that four application windows occupy the four ...
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How can I turn off window titlebars (window decorations) in gnome shell/mutter?
There's a shell extension called Maximus that disables window decorations when windows are maximized, but I'd like to disable window decorations entirely, for all windows (just using keyboard ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 configure vlc always on top
Ubuntu 18.04 with Cinnamon desktop.
VLC option View / Always on top doesn't work.
Right click on window title + Always on Top does work, but only for the current video
The first item is likely due ...
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Mouse focus and keyboard error in windows
My mouse is still able to move my cursor, but it is unable to interact with the windows under certain conditions. Alt+Tab doesn't work, but I can use my desktop with my keyboard with some success.
I ...
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How to exchange the contents of two screens
I use two monitors: one directly in front of me and one on the right. It happens frequently that I want to move the entire content of the right screen to the center screen and vice versa. The best ...
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Toggle terminal between minimized and restore with hotkey
I'm recently coming from Windows, and I loved ConEmu - specifically the feature that I could switch between minimized / restored with a simple hotkey.
I'm using Tilix on 18.04, and I like Tilix, ...
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How move window to left/right workspace
OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
DE: Gnome 3.28.1
I switch from Unity to Gnome with new LTS Ubuntu.
In "old-new" GUI, i found that by default we don't have horizontal workspaces, and must move between ...
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Can I turn off window snapping in GNOME 3?
I want to avoid my windows snapping to the edge of my screen when resizing and moving, but it doesn't seem to work.
I am running GNOME 3.28.2 on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS. I see no options for snapping when ...
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What process could be grabbing alt-tab?
I'm running KDE on Focal and had to reboot a few days ago. The normal thing for alt-tab to do is show a list of the windows on this workspace on the left side of the screen and cycle through them. Now,...
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Open application in specific workspace
I would like to have some applications always appear in a specific workspace. For example: I would like my mp3 player on the bottom left workspace, and terminal application on the bottom right one;
I ...
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Tiling windows horizontally and vertically under Lubuntu (LXDE/Openbox)?
Is there any way I can tile two windows horizontally (⬒) or vertically (◧ ) under Lubuntu/LXDE/Openbox? Maybe via a keyboard shortcut or panel button?
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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 can I solve the horrible feud between Compiz's wobbly windows and GNOME?
I've been a fan of Compiz's wobbly windows since I discovered them in 10.04. It's always been one of the first things I enabled. I still have it memorized: Appearance Preferences>Visual Effects>Extra. ...
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Keeping windows in the foreground while operating on others? (i.e., not changing windows' focus)
Is there a way of keeping in the foreground windows while I operating on others?
I am using now XUbuntu. However, I am interested also in canonical Ubuntu.
The trick was working on XUbuntu 16.04 (One ...
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Move windows to specific screens using the command line
This is similar to Quickly place a window to another screen using only the keyboard , but I want to be able to use the command line (so that all I need to do is to recall the command line from the ...
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Window tiling (Move-to-{corner,side}) shortcuts in Ubuntu 13.04
I am trying to figure out how I can change the window tiling shortcuts in Ubuntu 13.04. Currently, they are set to <Ctrl><Alt>numpadn.
First I tried to check the shortcuts available in ...
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Place the mouse pointer on a specific monitor on startup?
Lubuntu 18.04 with 3 monitors on an nVidia graphics card:
The desk, however, only has 2 physical screens. The left and center monitors are connected normally - 1 port to 1 cord to 1 screen - but the ...
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SSH shell launched using "expect" doesn't have full width. How can I make fix it?
I am using expect to auto login on SSH from an Unity launcher, the command looks something like this:
gnome-terminal -t SSH1 -e "expect -c 'spawn ssh [email protected] ; expect assword ; send \\"...
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Set Maximum Size for Maximized Windows
Is there a way to set the maximum allowed size for maximized windows?
Let me explain, I wish that the maximized windows do not cover the entire desktop, but I can set a margin or area to leave a part ...
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How do I increase the width of the resizing area in Ubuntu 20.04?
It is very hard to resize a window in Ubuntu 20.04. The resizing UI widget has to be precisely placed (< 5 pixels).
The answer to How do I increase the resize margin on windows? does not work for ...
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Ubuntu 18.04: Unlock windows in GNOME (minimize togther) with ShellTile extension
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 with the ShellTile GNOME extension. My windows seem to be glued together. So when I minimize, say my chrome browser, the other window, say a terminal window, gets minimized as ...
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How can window snap be enabled in Openbox?
I would like to have window snap behaviour in Openbox. For me, this would mean that dragging a window to the edge of the display using the mouse would change the size of the window such that it is ...
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Prevent Ubuntu from opening a new Firefox window on every click
I'm using XFCE on 18.04 but this seems to be applicable to all desktop environments. Most (bigger) applications (try for example with Thunderbird) behave like this:
If there is already an application ...
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Align windows with keyboard shortcuts? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a shortcut to tile windows to left or right side of the screen?
I'm running 12.04 inside VMWare Workstation.
Windows 7 provides a very useful feature: use Windows+...
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why ubuntu desktop showing nothing when vnc?
I was able to ssh to my ubuntu and started vnc server, then vnc to it form my mac but this is what I found see the screenshot. I do not see any desktop , when I mouse over a cross sign cursor appears ...
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Gnome: separate windows, even if they are for the same application
NB: I am not looking for how to switch between windows of the same application. Alt+Tab is great for that.
I often have two browser windows open at once (because they are for distinct profiles). I ...
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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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ALT+TAB loses focus
I often use ALT+TAB but sometimes, not always, after 0.3 secs it loses the focus on the newly switched window. No arrow on the right of the icon in the launcher, no name of the app in the top-left ...
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Stop or break window snapping to left or right with another window
When I have a window on the left, using Windows+← and I use my mouse or keyboard to snap another window to the right it joins the two windows at the centre. Now moving the centre resizes both ...
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window manager independent window resizing
Recently, I came in contact with screen resizing on windows 7, and I find it very nice. It works like so:
monitor 1 monitor 2
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Unity: How can I make Alt+TAB browse through all my windows without grouping them?
When I use ALT+TAB to cycle through my apps I would like to have icons for all my open browsers. I use the ` (Grave or the key above TAB) but I really find that hard to use.
Anyway I can just use ALT+...
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How do I use Unity drag handles?
I saw on this post that Unity has touch enabled drag handles. How do I turn them on so I can use them with a mouse?
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Starting a windowed program in a specific workspace, from command line
I wonder if I can "send" a windowed program into a specific workspace when I start it via command line.
For example, I would like to start my computer with a certain number of windowed programs open ...
