Questions tagged [window-manager]
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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How to disable automatic minimize window when clicking outside of this window? I'm using Xubuntu 14.04
When I have, for example,browser open and it is maximized then open terminal window not maximized I want to keep terminal window open when I click anywhere on browser. How to do this? So far when ...
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How can I disable the grouping of windows in Xfwm4 or Openbox?
My system based on Manjaro groups windows from the same application into one entry in the taskbar. (As OSes seem to do these days) I tried with both Xfwm4 and Openbox to switch this feature off but ...
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Win 7 - Taskbar preview does not appear
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Windows 7 Enterprise x64
HP Compaq 6300 Pro SFF
Preface - I have recently performed a full reimage on this machine. Reinstalled Windows from my company's base SCCM image about a ...
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Divide desktop into areas and windows resize and snap to them
I would really like to have my desktop divided into the following
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.xinitrc vs. AwesomeWM Autorun programs. Which one's better?
I have been looking for a way to start some custom apps when I login to my session in LightDM. So far, I have found two different ways:
1. Customise .xinitrc: For example, if I want to add a terminal ...
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Forcing an application's window to open in the workspace in which it was run
It takes a second or two to open a program (i.e. - Anki or Slack), and I often open multiple programs at a time—in different workspaces. Here's what I would like to happen:
Press Mod + R and type in "...
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Group multiple windows tiled within another window
A current example of my requirement is that I have 3 or 4 PowerShell windows open, and minimised to the taskbar. Is there any way, besides creating a second desktop, that I could tile, say 4, ...
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Apple wireless keyboard's command key switches into "Activities Overview" screen
I'm running Linux with Gnome 3.14.2 under VirtualBox (hosted on macOS Sierra), using the latest generation Apple wireless keyboard.
I disabled every Gnome keyboard shortcut using:
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Why windows are disappearing in my Fedora 23 cinnamon after being minimized?
I have a Fedora 23 upgraded from version 21. It all works fine. I also have cinnamon desktop environment. When minimizing any windows in the workspace, it totally disappears instead of going into the ...
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Single window mode in Windows
I want only one window to be maximized at a time. When I switch to a different window, the previous (or any other) window should be minimized. Mac has it, and it's called single app mode.
Using ⊞ Win ...
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Why does `xprop -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW` give me 0x0 for some windows?
.. and what can I do about it?
When you try to get some information about the currently focused window you're often told to just run xprop -root _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW to get the window id of the ...
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Force floating window to background awesome wm
Is there a way to stick a floating window to the monitor in the way that conky does? I want to have cava running integrated to the desktop.
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How to make Hammerspoon resize windows smoothly on OSX?
I'm using Hammerspoon to resize my windows on OSX. Particularly, I want to be able to make windows take up half the screen, either vertically or horizontally, as well as take up the entire screen.
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Window manager for Linux (like i3) - usage workflow?
Linux is my primary and only OS right now, I'm using Linux Mint 18 MATE. I've never used a window manager like i3, but the screen real estate and mouse-free functionality that they offer is making me ...
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Run i3 (4.12) inside of Gnome (3.20.3)
I run Linux Manjaro and I really love the way Gnome 3 looks, but I hate having to manually move windows out of the way of each other. I tried i3 and really liked it, however it looks pretty hideous.
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Chrome: Save and open a set of tabs in a new window
I have at least 10 tabs open at any time of the day. The problem is, I don't need half of them most the time.
I use different websites together depending on what I'm currently doing. If I study a ...
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Snap windows to parts of the screen on Windows 8.1 using keyboard shortcuts like Ubuntu Unity
In Ubuntu, with the Unity desktop environment, one can move and resize applications by using the following keyboard shortcut: CTRL + ALT + 0-9 (on the Number Pad). Ctrl Alt 1 moves the current window ...
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Disable quarter screen in Windows 10
When I have a window on half of my screen and press Win + Up or Win + Down, in Windows 10, the window smalls down to a quarter of the screen.
Is there a way to disable this behavior? I'd like to ...
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Windows 10: How to hide window without closing?
Coming from a Mac OS background, I find it immensely useful to be able to have an app running, loaded in memory, and doing updates but having no visible open windows. This allows things like Facebook ...
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Browser inside a browser
My employees and I frequently need to open several internal web pages next to each other on the screen.
Currently we do this by opening several Chrome windows and spending time to arrange for example ...
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do not follow mouse focus
On my Ubuntu 14.04 I have a lightweight window manager wmii where a mouse motion changes a window's focus. This is annoying and I want to change this behaviour, i.e. if only I left-click on a window, ...
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Windows 8.1 mouse locked at 30fps on 60fps monitor
On my PC I am able to play a couple of games at 60fps, and my monitor refresh rate is 60fps. However, when I move my mouse around on the desktop and drag Windows from one place to another it's kind of ...
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WindowManager: who is creating Documents/Video/Pictures/etc. in home directory
I had Ubuntu-14.04 installed in a minimum configuration, i.e. with no X Windows support. Later I added x-server packages for my card, and a lightweight WindowManager (I don't want KDE or GNOME), so I ...
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Make any windowed application 'Always On Top' without keyboard shortcut?
I've checked the previous question here, but unfortunately:
DeskPin mostly doesn't work since Windows 8, and it still doesn't work in Windows 10
PowerMenu hasn't been updated since 2002, and does not ...
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Is there any way to change a specific window's colors?
I'd like to find a way to manipulate window colors: invert, tint, change brightness and contrast of specific windows in Windows 7 (although I'm interested in solutions for 8 and 10 as well).
Among ...
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Menu accelerators for Gnome 3 windows
In most window managers, pressing alt+space brings up the window context menu. Often the context menu items are navigable using home/end, pgup/pgdn, and menu accelerators (so, say alt+space, c, or alt+...
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window management: draw new gui window on top of terminal pane that launched it
fyi, I use the i3 window manager.
One of the primary reason I prefer terminal based applications is that they use the same window pane as the shell I launched them from. I exit the program, and I am ...
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How should I set up a version of Linux so that it will use absolutely the smallest amount of RAM possible? [closed]
I need to set up a bunch of virtual machines using virtualbox. They are all going to be used for exactly one task, and nothing else. I want to run as many as I possibly can at once, but have limited ...
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Starting an window manager on hybrid graphics system fails
I'm a completely new user of Arch Linux. I installed the system nearly like described by the German beginners guide.
The most important things according this problem:
Bootmanager: GRUB
Installed ...
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What's different when moving windows around in Windows 10?
On Windows 7 and 8, I used to use Win+Arrow to move windows around. My standard move was to Win+<= a Chrome window and then move out a tab and Win+=>.
The problem with Windows 10 is that when I do ...
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How to stop windows from changing size (maximising) when dragging to screen edge in the GNOME Shell?
With Debian Jessie using the GNOME Shell Desktop, when I drag a window to the edge of the screen, it will attempt to maximise the window. This is similar to Windows' Aero Snap feature, which has a ...
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Minimise/Restore/Close buttons not showing on Modern apps, Windows 10
What is Windows 10 desktop supposed to look like?
All my Modern apps - Weather, News, Calendar, Edge etc. exhibit blank (hidden?) close, minimise and restore/maximise buttons. Ok, by design perhaps? ...
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Precisely resizing master pane in xmonad
In the default layout in xmonad, I know I can resize windows horizontally with mod-l and mod-h but these actions resize by too much.
I want to make very small adjustments to window sizes.
I played ...
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Change default Windows Explorer behavior when opening new windows (cascade)
Whenever I spawn a new window, MS Windows (explorer.exe) opens it in cascade by default. Is there a setting to change this behavior to open in the same position as the parent window?
Example 1. When ...
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Application windows change size and position on Windows 10
I upgraded to Windows 10 on the 29th on my laptop and I'm pretty much OK with everything except the new window management that's been put in place. I don't know if anyone here noticed, but ...
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how to: bspwm bspc rule for floating matplotlib figures
I have recently started using bspwm and I have been blown away by the improvement in my workflow. There is however one thing that has been bothering me:
I am writing data analysis scripts in python ...
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How to hide GUI of any Windows program?
I want to leave a program running in the background without its windows from popping up despite the fact that the program is minimized.
I'm looking for a way to run any program headless on Windows.
Is ...
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lubuntu - change default window manager (awesome wm)
I'm using Lubuntu 14.10 and trying to change the default window manager to awesome.
I installed awesome with:
sudo apt-get install awesome
Per the awesome wiki, I tried editing the ~/.xinitrc file ...
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Divide the screen in windows 7
I have to work on a debugger in one window and the source code and testing in another 2 windows. I have one large monitor. Doing Alt+Tab frequently is beginning ot hurt my fingers. I was looking for ...
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change default window manager to LXDE
It is funny, but I cannot find out how to change the windowmanager that starts automatically to lxde.
At the moment on my Raspberry Pi it auto starts OSMC
edit: I have to exit that and start lxde ...
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Shortcut to bring an app to front if the window title is not constant?
For example, applications like Files or Document Viewer in Ubuntu:
If I want to focus a window like Sublime Text, then wmctrl -a "Sublime" is straightforward, but for Files, the title can be "Desktop"...
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Is there a way to force the mouse to be confined to an arbitrary window in windows 7?
I have a multi-monitor setup, and run almost all programs in windowed-mode. This works great for the most part, but is problematic when some applications, or even webbapps, use the position of the ...
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Showing application icon on windows8's windows
Is there any way to display the application icon on it's window borders. like it used to on older version of windows on the top left corner?
that new window is beautiful and looks great and have ...
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Is there any Unix window manager that looks like it is from a sci fi movie? [closed]
I woke up today with a weird desire to make my laptop look like those sci-fi movies where a hacker/IT guy can save the world using just a macbook ( -.- ).
Anyway on all those movies you can notice ...
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How do I start writing a high performance html editor with a non default UI on Windows that I can later port to Linux and Mac? [closed]
I want to know the best way to get a window to display non default UI elements while ultimately being multiplatform. I am trying to create an HTML editor which is more reactive but also featuring a ...
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Maximize window when dragged to top in Mint/Cinnamon
In Windows 7, when I drag a window to the top of the screen, it maximizes. In Mint, however, it takes only the upper half of the screen. Can I make it maximize instead, line in Windows?
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shortcut to bring hidden Chrome window to front on Mac?
On Mac OS 10.10, I have two google chrome windows stacked on top of each other. How can I bring the window that is hidden behind to the front? From the "Window" menu, I can select the window that I ...
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How can I permanently rename a window (in XFCE)?
I tend to have a bunch of windows of the same applications (terminals and text editors) and they can be a problem to manage. It would help me a lot if I could give them the most intuitive and clear ...
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Mac OS X Yosemite global keybinding management
I have recently moved from linux to Yosemite and by far the most annoying thing about Mac OS X are the severe limitations in window manager configuration. Being an emacs user my fingers automatically ...
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How to use i3 window manager in fedora with gnome
I installed i3 and have its config file ~/.i3/config ready. When I execute i3 command, it says,
ERROR: Another window manager seems to be running (X error 10).
I found this article. I don't know ...
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