Questions tagged [window-management]
Window management is the placement of application windows.
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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 to organise tabs in the Xfce Panel by workspace?
I am constantly using multiple workspaces for different types of programs and I would like to have them all visible on my Xfce Panel.
The "tasklist" plugin has the option to show open tabs from all ...
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Mac style application shortcut in KDE (focus existing instance or launch new one)?
In osx you can set a shortcut keybinding for any app (using Better Touch Tool), and when you press that key, if the app is not open, it will be opened, otherwise it will be brought in the front. I am ...
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Custom Terminal App ID
I am running Matlab through the terminal, with the -nodesktop and -nosplash flags. I even created a custom laucher with gnome-terminal -e "matlab -nodesktop -nosplash". However, the OS (Ubuntu 12.10) ...
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Automatically Shade Window on Unfocus
I have certain windows (for example, Empathy) that I want to be automatically roll up (or shade) upon being unfocused and to roll down (or un-shade) when focused. I can manually roll the windows up ...
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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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Unity style number shortcuts which also minimize the focused application?
Is there a solution on Linux similar to the Windows 7 Win+number, or Unity's Super+number shortcuts, which will also minimize the application if it is currently active and focused?
In Windows 7, if ...
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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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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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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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How do you centre windows using a keyboard shortcut?
I found some people talking about Compiz Config but I'm still really confused. I want to use super+control+z to centre a window. I don't want them to be resized or anything. Just centred.
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Make Scale / Window Picker preserve relative window positions?
When I use the Scale feature in Ubuntu 14.04, the miniature versions of the windows are not in the same relative positions on the screen as the actual windows.
Suppose, for example, that I have 2 ...
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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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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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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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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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Change window move funcitonality to mirror OSX's Zooom2
On OSX I use Zooom2 to move my windows around with keyboard shortcuts and mouse motion. This operates in a very similar manner to Ubuntu, with the following difference:
On Zooom2, I have it set so ...
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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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