A window manager takes care of the placement and appearance of windows in a GUI-driven operating system. Sometimes, the term also refers to plugins that extend this basic functionality.
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Vim-like window manager [closed]
In my daily work I use a lot vim as my editor and the tiling window manager awesome. In my opinion both are great tools. What I don't like about awesome (and multiple other tiling window managers) are ...
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How to set different window managers to different users under Linux
I want to restrict different users to different sets of window managers. For example,
user A: openbox, fluxbox
user B: openbox
user C: openbox, fluxbox, metacity
How can I do it?
Additional ...
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Suddenly, I notice Windows 7 window manager behaves strangely
Windows 7 window manager has recently started to behave strangely.
Firefox and Steam are running simultaneously. I am looking at the window of Firefox.
Now, I click on the Steam icon in the ...
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can I set mouse focus in OSX [duplicate]
I would like to use my MAC mini like I use my linux boxes without having to install X11 and another window manager. The primary feature I miss is mouse focus without a window having to be in the ...
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Restarting window manager on Windows 8
When Windows Explorer (the window manager) crashed on Windows 7, one had only to open the task manager by hitting Ctrl+Shift+Esc, choose File -> New process and run explorer again. Actually, sometimes ...
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Have remote X app open without manual “placement” on my local display
I am running X on my local machine and then using ssh -Y username@remotemachine to connect to a remote Debian server. Once logged in to this remote Debian server I type iceweasel at the command line ...
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Windows/OS X: Is it possible to switch to a window in a particular direction?
I'm looking for the functionality that you can find on window managers like awesome, screen, and tmux where you can specify the window you want to switch to with a directional key.
When using ...
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Can you set your visual studio 2012 windows to be independently active?
When using Visual Studio 2012 with multiple code windows on each monitor, I would like to be to have only one active code window.
If I am browsing a stack overflow answer in my browser and I give ...
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Compiz equivalent
I am using Mint 14 Cinnamon and would like to install something similar to Compiz. I love to bind key shortcuts and mouse clicking to perform some frequently used actions. I know Compiz is unstable so ...
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Can't move or resize windows - fluxbox
I recently uninstall fedora on my laptop and installed opensuse instead.
Everything was working fine.
Since I used fluxbox with fedora and I still use it with opensuse, I decided to use my old ...
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Can I install an alternative window manager on Mac OS X?
I come from the Windows and Linux world. Is there an alternative window manager for OS X such that I can move the "stoplight" icons from the left to the right on the titlebar of the window, and also ...
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Windows 7: window moving
I have recently installed Windows 8. But now in Windows 7, when I move windows, a line depicting the outline of the window shows the current position of the screen when dragging them. This is not like ...
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Win+<number> hotkey to select a window in Windows XP (like Win 7) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows XP Quick Launch shortcuts with WinKey
In Windows 7, I can press Win+1 and it will automatically select the window for whatever program is first in the bottom ...
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How to resize font size on window title bar on gnome?
By default window title bar on Gnome has bigger font size. How can I resize that font size on window title bar? I want it to be smaller like on KDE or MS Windows.
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Multiple Windows Desktop areas for Full-Screen applications
Is it possible to run multiple instances of Windows Explorer within a single user session, or configure multiple desktops that are portions of a screen?
I don't know the best way to describe what I ...
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Linux Mint loses Window Focus
I recently installed Linux Mint 13 64bit with Cinamon Desktop and run into a weird problem.
It's about losing Mouse-Focus if more than one Window are open.
For Example, I open up Chromium, play ...
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touchpad configuration is auto reset to default on ICEWM
I am using openSUSE with different desktop enviroment Gnome, KDE, iceWM and etc. iceWM is very efficient so I'm using that. When I configured touchpad using KDE setting (available on iceWM) it works ...
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Tiling window manager where dual heads share common workspace
I want to use a tiling window manager with my dual monitor setup, but almost all wms seem to treat each monitor as an independent workspace. This means that I can change the workspace of monitor 0 ...
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How to switch between shell windows in dwm window manager?
I read that tutorial on their page, can't find nothing about switching between uxterm shells. Using mouse is too much distraction.
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How to bring floated window on top above another in dwm window manager?
Sometimes when at desktop 1, I switch from float mode to tiled mode, and then back. On desktop 2 for example: shell windows overlaps chrome window, how to send it back...? Also would be nice to switch ...
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Moving windows on Windows like on Gnome (Alt+DnD)?
Is there a hidden setting or an external utility that would enable moving windows on Windows like on GNOME?
I'm particularly thinking of moving windows using Alt + Drag and drop (which can be changed ...
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VNC over SSH with XY flags?
Wikipedia mentions that VNC is insecure here and SSH manual also has something about XY -flags. Which one should you really use to share the window manager?
By Unix, I mean that I don't use Windows ...
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Hiding window from alt-tab and window-buttons (xfce panel) [closed]
Is there any way I can achieve this under Linux Mint 13 running xfce4 ?
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What is the most basic window manager for ubuntu that can be used to display a single application [closed]
I've tried starting a full screen application without a window manager, using xinit,
which works but instead of starting at the top left of the screen the application starts somewhere in the middle of ...
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KDE Temporarily disable window snapping
Is there a key combination that one can use when dragging around/resizing a window that disables window snapping in KWin the KDE4's window manager?
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I want to press a key combination in an EWMH compliant window manager and have a terminal appear below my resized Chromium window
This is one of those things that looks like it might have a simple solution but is rather time consuming once you start investigating PyTile, Xnee and the likes.
I know, I should just use a tiling ...
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Does using a tiling window manager make a terminal multiplexer obsolete? [closed]
Since about half a year I have been enjoying a terminal multiplexer (tmux, to whomever it may concern), and have grown to like it. I would like to try a tiling WM as opposed to a stacked one some time ...
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OpenBox pyPanel error with Imlib2 on OSX
I'm trying to use pyPanel in OpenBox, but when I run it I get this error:
Xlib.protocol.request.QueryExtension
Imlib2 dlopen failed: dlopen(/usr/lib/libImlib2.so.1, 10): image not found
I have ...
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Using X11 over the network to get more screens
I have two machines each of which can drive two displays, and I'm trying to figure out how to configure X so that I have 4 X screens all managed by the same window manager. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 ...
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scrottwm/spectrwm not reading configuration files
I am not sure if this is the right forum for this.
I am using https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Spectrwm as my window manager but not been able to make it read my ~/.spectrwm.conf
Can anyone ...
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Anyone know how I can use the same keys to move between Vim windows as well as Tmux (or tiling WM) panes?
Anyone know how I can use the same keys to move between Vim windows as well as Tmux (or tiling WM) panes?
For example when I use my key combination to move to the right pane within VIM, VIM should ...
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Make inactive windows transparent in Kubuntu/Compiz
In Kubuntu, I would like to make windows transparent/translucent when they are inactive.
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Multiple viewports into the same Virtual Desktop
I have been looking around for window manager solutions that would work nicely for me. While I have found a number of things, I have not yet found anything that really works well for my needs.
Usage ...
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GNOME 2 + Compiz equivalent?
Running Fedora 14 and realize I need to either change distros or find an alternative to GNOME 3 in Fedora 17.
Based on what I have read to-date, XFCE and KDE are the go-to WMs if I want to avoid ...
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use i3 tiling window manager in RHEL 5
For some time I have been using the i3 tiling window manager in Ubuntu. However at my new company we use RHEL5. I would dearly love to port over all my configs but Im having some trouble...
An ...
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Running a non-tiling window manager inside an xmonad tile
My window manager of choice is xmonad and I am very happy with it. However, I am learning to develop applications using Gtkmm and Glade, and for this very specific purpose and nothing else, I would ...
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Dim/Fade the Firefox window when not active
Now that Visual Studio 2012 has a somewhat usable dark theme, I'm starting to actually reduce a bit of strain on my eyes at work.
The problem now is that I have two monitors, generally with a ...
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windows xp focus mouse
I'm using windows xp and I'm looking for a feature that is available in almost all linux window managers, which is to be able to give focus to a window when the mouse hovers over it (without selecting ...
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Launched application does not stay on the same desktop
Why is it that application with a long loading time (NetBeans, Eclipse etc.) does a "jump" to the current desktop, even if the process was started on another?
If I go to desktop 3 and launch an ...
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How to start Mac OS X client without its window manager Quartz Compositor?
I am planning to install Mac OS X Lion or Moutain Lion into a virtual machine mainly build Xcode project. The virtual machine will run on my laptop. Therefore, I am trying to cut down the virtual ...
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Openbox fails on login
X throws this error:
Xsession: unable to launch "/usr/share/xsessions/openbox.xsession" Xsession
--- "/usr/share/xsessions/openbox.xsession" not found; Falling back to
default session.
But a trip ...
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Howto disable resizing of existing window with X11?
I have to disable window resize possibility of an existing program (not mine, so I cannot modify source to fix it). The program can be started on different window managers, so the solution cannot be ...
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Is there any tiling WM with graphical effects support?
I know, that programmer's happiness is not about rich 3D-effects of windows manager. But all tiling WMs that I've find looks like really old-school.
And my question:
Is there any tiling WM not ...
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FVWM - Split Desktop into Multiple Virtual Desktops
I have a Linux virtual machine running within VMware Fusion 3.
I have a dual monitor setup that runs thanks to the "vmware-user" application which enables both monitors as a single large display.
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How to change tiling layout in KDE 4.7
I am using KDE 4.7.4 and enabled tiling. Is there a way to see the current tiling layout and to change the tiling layout for a specific desktop, similar to what you would do in the Awesome window ...
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tiling WM with resizable stack windows?
Right now I'm using dwm and for the most part loving it. It does almost everything I want, which is great, but there is one more thing I'd like that I'm not sure what WM can or can't do, or if there's ...
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Alt-Drag and Alt-Resize windows on Windows?
Coming from Linux, I really miss some features of window manager like xfwm, etc...
One thing I got used to was to be able to drag or resize a window while holding the ALT key.
Is there such a tool ...
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Vicious net widget and dynamic interface
Ive got pretty standard vicious net widget for the eth0, yet this is my laptop and I move a lot, sometimes I use wlan0, sometimes ppp0. Is there a way in vicious to dynamically choose the active ...
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Multi screen and tags in awesome wm
Is there a way to assign names to the screens or better, to use names as displayed by xrandr (LVDS1 etc). My problem is that the VGA screen sometimes gets number 1, and sometimes 2. I would like to ...
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Modify window tags in AwesomeWM
Let's say I have a browser window and Inkscape open in tag "1" and I want to move Inkscape to tag "2", what do I do? I checked the man pages, to no avail. Please help.
