Questions tagged [gui]
Questions related to Graphical User Interfaces.
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Why can I execute calc in an SSH session, but not notepad?
I'm logged in into a Win32-OpenSSH instance as an administrator in filtered mode (non-elevated) if that matters.
In that session, I learned that I can't run GUI programs because the SSH-server is run ...
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Possible to change the behavior of double-clicking a minimized taskbar button?
In Windows, double-clicking a minimized taskbar button shows the application window.
Is it possible to change that behavior to instead show, then minimize the application window?
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How to create Window which user will not be able to close in Linux GUI
Not sure even how to ask a question as the answer may depend on WM or DE so I'm not sure if there is a common answer but my plan is to create an application that will limit screen time for my kids. ...
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How do I get the border to show on the Windows File Explorer when active?
This is a relatively new problem, so probably introduced with a recent Windows Update: The window border of the Windows 10 File Explorer is not visible when it is the active window.
Here is a ...
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How to increase the shadow under windows?
I am using Windows 11. I am aware of sysdm.cpl and already have "Show shadow under windows" enabled. However, I found the shadow is too thin/flat compared to macOS.
How to increase the ...
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How to show "symbols" for bash script in VScode?
In the following screenshot we can see that the outline tab for a bash script is empty, as it does not shows any symbols. Do I need to enable any extension for this? Any suggestions?
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Can I change the default size/posizion of `run` in Windows 10/Windows 11
The ⊞ Win+R command is quite handy, but is there a way to change the default size or position of its GUI window in Windows 10 or Windows 11, when I call it show up by ⊞ Win+R?
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Windows 10 Task Manager's border lines are absent on the right / bottom
I disabled shadows in SystemPropertiesPerformance.exe show shadows under windows and set Title bars and windows borders in "Colors" settings and noticed the Task Manager window is missing ...
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Powershell Winform. How to hide or disable combobox until chekbox checked?
i try'd use Visible and Enabled under "if CheckBox3.Checked", but it's not work =(
How make this works?
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing
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GUI Windows Not Appearing in Auto Startup Script
So I'm working on a Jetson Nano running Ubuntu 18.04. I'd like to create a script that at startup automatically runs, taking a video feed from the connected webcam, and opening up a window to view the ...
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What's up with the C:\Windows\Assembly folder?
If you go to the C:\Windows\Assembly folder on windows 10 (and possibly earlier versions as well) file explorer looks all weird. What's going on?
As you can see in the image, the menu at the top is ...
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Google Chrome UI Turned Black Randomly, but the hovering UI is still there and any new windows I open still work
I was in middle of watching a movie on Google Chrome in fullscreen, and suddenly my whole screen turned black. This just happened to me yesterday, and I fixed it by resizing my window that time, so ...
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Linux redirect window contents
On Linux, would it be somehow possible to show the graphical output an application would normally send to a window in a DE, but without such a window? That is showing it on a separate display or so?
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How Can I use a variable in a variable?
The purpose of this form is to find the name of devices assigned to Exiting employees. Currently the only reference we have to a User/Device assignment is in the AD description field. I am having ...
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problems installing gui on kali-linux wsl2
I had previously installed kali-linux in my Windows 11 computer (WSL), but I had to erase it due some display driver issues. This time when I tried to reinstall the WSL Kali-linux machine with RDP ...
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Windows 10 (and 11) Shell Corruption?
Has anyone encountered issues in Windows 10 (and Windows 11) where the shell seems to become corrupted? Here are some examples of symptoms:
can't scroll start menu (in Win10)
can't scroll Settings ...
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Windows Taskbar Icons not Showing
For some reason, this past week, the icons on my taskbar are not showing as expected. I've tried all solutions that I could find but nothing seems to work, do you think there are any solutions i haven'...
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Kali permanently remove sign-in and GUI
I was wondering if anyone knows how to remove sign in and gui for Kali? I am using a raspberry pi zero w 2 and therefore want to permanently remover these (To maximise speed).
Thanks,
Anon.
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Matlab code, resizing the Graphical user interface
I am working on a Matlab code. When I'm resizing the GUI, the characters in it are messed up. I want to resize GUI and characters in them at the same time.
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I cannot log in to the user in GUI on the Linux Mint
When I type the correct password on the login screen and hit the enter key, the screen starts blinking and clears the field for entering the password. After this operation I am not moved to the ...
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Install OSSEC on Windows Server without GUI
The installation and configuration of the OSSEC windows agent requires a GUI. However I am running an environment which has cmd and powershell only. Is there a way to install and configure from the ...
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How do I stop my trackpad leaving cursors all over my screen?
On my Windows laptop, when I double-finger scroll using the trackpad, a little icon pops up next to the mouse cursor, and when I stop scrolling, the icon usually disappears.
Occasionally, the icon ...
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Strip all following MediaWiki syntax from text
I use Visual Studio Code.
I am migrating my website from one content management system to another (from MediaWiki to Drupal) and all my MediaWiki articles are infused with MediaWiki syntax, unfit for ...
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XMGrace side menus don't work on WSL2 Windows 11
I have installed the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 with Ubuntu 20.0 LTS on a Windows 11 machine (a DELL XPS 13) and I wanted to use it to run XMGrace, the popular 2D plotting tool for the X Window ...
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GUI Automation without display?
I have programs implemented with AutoHotkey or Ranorex Studio both working perfectly performing GUI Automation in Windows.
When deploying them on my another machine (board without display devices ...
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Open a GUI application from WSL of a server on remote PC
I have two PCs (Window 10). I install an SSH server on the first one following the instruction given in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse. ...
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Clipboard Issues with Windows WSL2 GUI Apps (WSLg)
WSL2 now has built-in xserver wslg, but just like reported here,
I'm having difficulties letting apps in wslg to sync their x-clipboard content with normal Windows' clipboard.
I know there might not ...
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GUI apps on WSL/Debian
So we are supposed to be able to run Linux GUI apps on the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
However, as per Debian wiki:
To activate the new GUI application support you have to update your WSL2 ...
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Getting output from GUI application to Excel and providing input to GUI application from Excel
Is there any way to interact from Excel with an separate GUI application?
I need to provide few numbers as strings to the text fields of said GUI application, and then read an output from that same ...
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Why Mac and Linux file managers rarely have folder tree panel
Today I had to using macOS after many months of exclusive access to Windows. I'm not a Windows fanboy, the situation just forced me to doing that.
Of course I was knowing about Finder limitations, so ...
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Does Installing KDE Plasma on Debian Bullseye Necessarily Install a Bunch of KDE Apps I don't Need?
Can I install just the KDE Plasma GUI/desktop interface on Debian 11 (Bullseye) without installing any KDE apps by default?
In other words, does doing sudo apt -y install task-kde-desktop install only ...
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I can't scroll in any UWP Application
for some time now I am unable to scroll in UWP apps. Wheather it be small dialoges (like the emoji picker) or normal UWP windows, like SystemSettings.exe.
I honestly have no idea where I could start ...
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How to enable "One Line UI" on Chromium based browsers?
Firefox has this very neat feature called (confusingly enough) userChrome.css which enables users to customize the browser's UI itself through a CSS file. I am using it mainly to have a one-line UI in ...
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Is there a way to change Windows' maximize button behavior?
I would like to make maximize button leave a border that makes the wallpaper be seen on the edges of my screen similar to this screenshot.
My workaround right now is using PowerToys' FancyZones but I ...
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wsl throws error when a GUI app is launched
I'm currently in windows 11 (22000.258) i tried running google chrome in wsl (debian distro) it throws me this error "[124:124:1015/185302.103087:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(1400)] Unable to open ...
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7zip CLI switches to achieve the same result then in the GUI
Most of the time I use the GUI for zipping stuff with 7zip.
Now I have to batch for about 100 files.
The result between the CLI settings and GUI settings is not the same.
CLI Settings:
7z a -t7z -mx9 ...
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New feature WSL 2 GUI apps is not woking properly :(
Microsoft has released a new feature for WSL that runs Linux GUI applications on Windows
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps
I followed the steps but I'm not working ...
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Error running GUI commands on WSL
I configured vcxsrv on windows 10 and other steps required for GUI to work.
Now I typed in gvim command on WSL after around 5-10 mins it showed the following error messages
E233: cannot open display
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Sharing application between Linux distros in a multi-boot
I'm multi booting Arch Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu, and would like to use applications installed in one of them in the other as well. The terminal-only applications can be run easily by chrooting, but ...
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Firefox 90: page actions button(s) missing: pin tab, copy link, etc
After updating to Firefox 90 in Linux (Kubuntu 20.04) the "copy link" and "pin tab" buttons are missing. The 3-dot button under which all the other buttons could be added or hidden ...
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How to refresh (speed up) a Windows PC without rebooting?
I notice slow response of my PC in the afternoon or evening, when it has been heavily loaded during the day. In my case, the heavy loading does not mean particularly high CPU usage, but using a dozen ...
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7-Zip -- 7z.exe | 7zG.exe | 7zFM.exe (which one to use?)
7-Zip has multiple .exe files, which one do I use?
Every so often I would forget which way round these were, or would try and use one of the .exe's for the wrong purpose, so thought I would get to the ...
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Resizing and moving an application window using keyboard hotkey and mouse
Is there a way in Windows 10, to resize an application window by holding some hotkey (e.g. ALT) then click and drag - as is possible in X11 for Linux?
Example of resizing in KDE here:
https://www....
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Bad GUI resolution WSL2
Today I updated to Windows Insider Preview 21387.1 and run wsl --update to use the new GUI feature of WSL2. (no extra software like VcXsrv or etc.)
After restarting WSL, I could run GUI apps like ...
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xdotool scripting, vmware interference
So I have a small gui program I need to automate as part of a build process. I'm working in Fedora 10, and unfortunately the gui program is a windows program I'm running through wine and wine crashes ...
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Windows (10 and Server 2019): Why suddenly Search Active Directory button is greyed out (disabled)?
I do not understand this unexpected behavior: I'm making some experiments with VMWare Workstation 16 Pro and few virtual machines with Windows 10 Pro (20H2) and Windows Server 2019 Standard. I put ...
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GUI for WSL2 CentOS through RDP
I've installed an Xfce desktop for WSL2 Ubuntu-18.04-LTS through xrdp with relative ease, but am having difficulty with CentOS 7.
I have used the workaround here for systemctl. Afterwards, I've tried ...
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Reinstall anonsurf GUI on parrot
I deleted anonsurf gui thats installed by default on my parrot os.
I saw many articles on how to install it on kali but none on parrot.
Please help.
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How to automatically sync files in WinSCP? [duplicate]
Is there a way to do that in WinSCP? The official article about that only discusses scripting, while I want a simple GUI solution.
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How do I load locally saved icons on "new tab" homepage firefox?
I would like to know if it is possible to load icons stored on my computer in the "new tab" homepage of firefox. This came out because when firefox starts, it takes massive time to load the ...
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