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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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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Gnome3 - Change window drag shortcut
Gnome defaults to using Alt+LeftMouse dragging for moving windows around - I hate this feature and it breaks some apps I use. In Gnome2 you could change the modifier key in one of the settings ...
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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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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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Guake/Tilda-like visibility toggle for any application
Guake and Tilda are 2 applications in Ubuntu which can be toggled visible/invisible with a hotkey, but this mechanism is built inside of these applications.
Is there some general manager software ...
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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.
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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.
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What Tiling Window Manager for Windows do you recommend? [closed]
What is the best tiling window manager for Windows?
I'm looking for something like awesome.
It would be nice if it removes the title bar and has "comfortable" shortcut keys (for me that's vi keys, ...
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organize windows layout on the screen (windows 7)
I've got a large screen and I wish to have a predefined layout for some of the programs I use.
For example, I want the skype to always open to a specific spot, and the chrome to another, and so on.
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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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Windows 8 Restart Desktop Window Manager
Is there a way to restart the Desktop Window Manager in Windows 8? Note that this is not Explorer, but DWM itself (restarting Explorer didn't do anything for me). Currently mine is using 4,352MB RAM ...
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AwesomeWM - How to change statusbar font colors and font itself
My current awesome WM theme has some ugly colors that I want to change and I want to change the font from what I believe is Terminus to Monospace. This is all for the status bar at the top btw.
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How do I quickly position two windows side by side?
Sometimes you need to see two windows side by side, e.g. when following instructions or when working on a translation. How do I quickly arrange two windows like that?
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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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Why is vlc systray icon in i3 status bar
Somehow VLC has put a little icon in my i3 status bar. I know that I can go into VLC preferences and uncheck the "Show systray icon" option to remove it, but my question is how is this happening in ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why does Desktop Window Manager leak memory or even crash?
My Desktop Window Manager memory usage keeps spiking and causing it to disable Aero, saying it ran out of allowed memory. DWM restarts and comes back up fine when I kill its process. Why is this ...
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How to use wmctrl to activate window of a given class?
The output of wmctrl -lx looks like this:
0x020002f5 0 Plasma.Plasma lnx plasma-desktop
0x02a00015 0 okular.Okular lnx TCP/IP Protocol Suite – Okular
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How do I set my window manager in Fedora 20 without using a graphical login prompt?
I'm using Fedora 20 and I've disabled the graphical login so now when I boot I'm presented with a standard console to log into. When I log in and run startx I get Metacity. How can I change this on a ...
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Turn off Window Change on Hover in Mac OS X
Was mucking around with OmniDazzle, and appropriately pressed every keyboard shortcut to see all the effects.
Unfortunately now, when I hover over 'another' window - it comes into focus without me ...
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Viewport based window manager? [closed]
Currently I use AwesomeWM for a tiling window-manager. I love it. However I am getting a 4k monitor (3840×2160, that's like 4 1080p screens together). I think that with this screen it would make more ...
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Windows utility to save/restore window size & position history? [closed]
Is there a Windows utility that keeps a record of the size and position of all active windows for later retrieval? For example, if I have my text editor and web browser open side-by-side, and then ...
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Detect window's fullscreen status on Linux?
So basically, I'm trying to write a watchdog script, that checks window titles against a list stored in a file. If the window is fullscreen, the script should do nothing and move on. If the window is ...
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Xmonad refuses to recompile
Recently I've installed Xmonad on mint. It works nicely. Then I create an ".xmonad" directory within my home, and a "xmonad.hs" within that ( ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs ). I use the basic example on the ...
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KDE auto-shrinks windows?
I have been beating my head against the wall and my Google-fu is failing me.
I tried Ubuntu 11.10 and saw Gnome 3. It's horrid. So I thought I'd give KDE4 a shot.
My only complaint after a few ...
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Win 7: How can I resize a window to make it much bigger than my screen?
I have a window that I'd like to make much bigger than my physical screen (explanation of why below). I hit Alt+Space, M, and then press the Up arrow to move the title bar above the physical top of my ...
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How to force xscreensaver to stay on top?
I am building web kiosek and I am using matchbox as window manager and xscreensaver. My problem is that I need in background restart web browser, but when xscreensaver goes to blank and browser is ...
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Automatically restore windows as monitors are connected and disconnected?
I'm looking for a Windows 7 equivalent to the Mac OS utility Stay that let's you "automatically restore windows as displays are connected and disconnected".
I have a laptop that usually stays ...
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Kick window to the opposite monitor under TwinView?
In Windows, under dual monitors, I can flip the active window to the same location on the other monitor by hitting Win+Shift+Left/Right. I can also "aero snap" the window to either half of the current ...
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How to move cursor/focus to another monitor using keyboard shortcut in KDE?
I want to move focus of the cursor/window between monitors through keyboard shortcut in KDE, is it possible? It should be something like ctrl+meta+j/k in awesome wm.
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Emulating WinKey+ArrowKey Functionality from win7 to linux
I much prefer Linux over windows but one thing I've always found win7 to be better at was managing and moving windows to different parts of the screen. I'm wondering if anyone knows how I can ...
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Starting programm into window manager
Is there a way to start a program from a terminal, that is not a "child" of the window manager (p.e. XFCE), into a window manager?
The executed program has to be detached form the terminal (and my ...
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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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Configuring larswm to use touchpad in Debian Wheezy
I have probably a rather strange taste regarding window managers but the best one I have found so far is larswm. Although it is available in Debian Wheezy, making it useable involves a bit of system ...
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In a dual monitor setup, how to find which monitor a given window is on?
I am writing a python script to resize and organize windows, just like the grid plugin does in compiz-fusion(except that I am on Debian Wheezy).
I am using xrandr and wmctrl to get the resolutions of ...
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In suse linux, how do I control where a new window will pop up?
Linux and Unix have always sought an open area on the desktop to open a popup window. In these days of dual monitors, this can be very annoying. How can I force a pop up, like an "Open file" window ...
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What window-manager is this? [closed]
What is window manager is this picture displaying?
I was very impressed by Fabrice Bellard's JavaScript "linux in browser" to put it mildly. I searched for Fabrice Bellards at Stack Overflow and you ...
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What is this window switcher (screenshot) running on Windows Vista and how do I disable it?
I'm diagnosing a problem on a friend's Windows Vista machine. Basically it has this intermittent issue where without any user input, it seems to activate some kind of window switcher/tiler program ...
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How can I keep KeePassX *always* on the current workspace?
I use KeePassX as my password manager. I am running GNU/Linux Mint with Xfce. I like to keep KeePass always on the visible workspace (which I can do by selecting that option after right-clicking the ...
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How to open a terminal in Sawfish?
I am running FreeBSD and I installed Xorg and then Sawfish, I got it working and running: a black screen with a black mouse... that is all. It moves and all but none of the mouse buttons do anything. ...
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Trying to install new wm broke lightdm
I am trying to install bspwm for my debian machine, and I've been following this guide for dummies. So far, all the desktop environments and window managers that I've added on were all done through ...
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how to make four windows of the same app fill four quadrants of a screen using slate
I can move a window to the top left corner of a screen using something like this in slate
bind a:shift;cmd;alt move screenOriginX;screenOriginY screenSizeX/2;screenSizeY/2
usually when I fire sequel ...
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how to resize window to quarter screen width and height in slate
I'm using slate as a window manager, and I would like to bind a certain key combo to automatically resize and position the window as follows
window width and height will each be half the size of the ...
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Disable fullscreen mode on a uncooperative window
I have a program that opens in fullscreen mode. It doesn't provide any way to fix this within the program, and wmctrl -b remove,fullscreen has no effect. (Nor does the equivalent xprop command.)
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