The window is a fundamental concept in graphical user interfaces.
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How can I make window borders transparent in Gnome?
I want to create a GTK+ 3.0 theme (for Gnome 3.6+) that features transparent window borders. Is this possible? If so, how can I do it?
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Wait for a X window to appear/disappear (in a sane way)
Inside a shell script, I need to wait for a window that has a string on its title to appear, do some action, and then wait for it to disappear, and do some other action.
Until yesterday, I had this ...
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How to capture the display screen before accessing the desktop?
To be able to use tools like gnome-screenshot or xfce4-screenshot one has to be logged in and with access to the desktop.
But what about capturing previous screens? That would have to be done in the ...
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How to resize application windows in an arbitrary direction (not vertical and not horizontal)
One of the most annoying things for me in using Linux, is resizing an open window, such as a terminal window.
I'd like to resize the terminal window (make it larger or smaller). But when I put the ...
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Some GUI programs hung up
Today I decided to migrate to systemd. Everything work quite good, but I have problem with few GUI programs - they hung up after draw window (see img at the end of msg). Program in which I discovered ...
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Linux Mint 13 Xfce window button disappeared & no mouse cursor in text mode
I am using Linux Mint 13 Xfce version on VBox. After one month without any problem suddenly today I noticed that the min-max-close buttons on all windows have disappeared.
Secondly, I can write in ...
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Xcompmgr, puts child windows in the background
I don't know if it's related to fluxbox, but whenever I launch the transparency management at startup with xcompmgr -f it becomes difficult to use pop-up windows. They are all sent to background, and ...
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How to disable popup inscriptions in gnome 2?
When one moves mouse cursor to certain positions following inscriptions appear: "Window Menu", "Close Window" and so on. How to disable them?
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Start window in specific size and location, is there a general tool can do that?
Is there a general program, that start my GUI program, and able to specify the size and location of this program ? Not just X programs, but also other GUI libs.
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Open application on custom desktop in xmonad
Suppose I call shell-command from emacs for example (shell-command "evince"). Is it possible to move the application (in the present example evince) started this way automatically to desktop 5 in ...
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What process created this window with no PID associated? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What process created this X11 window?
I need to kill a process that spawned a window which seems to have no PID associated with it. At least that is what xdotool says:
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How to emulate a KWin effect by command line?
I would like to apply the Toogle Invert Effect when I start my system.
So, I need to know how to call this KWin effect using the terminal.
OBS.: I'd tried xte "keydown Meta_L" "key i" "keyup ...
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How to make LXTerminals open maximized in Lubuntu 11.04?
I have Lubuntu 11.04, I start my terminal sessions with a shortcut.
The annoying thing is that the terminal windows are never maximized when I launch them, so every time I launch a terminal I must ...
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Switch to an application using its PID
I'm using Gnome. In vim, I want to map a key to switch to Firefox. I know that I should use bash commands (a command in form of !...). Is it possible to switch to an application using its PID?
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How to change keys for window manipulation (from menu, default: alt+space) in openbox?
I'd like to change default keys which manipulate window.
For example default set is:
maximize: x key
but
unmaximze: is e key
I really want to have for example x key for maximize and unmaximze.
How to ...
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Text editor with split screen option
Is there an editor which has the option to "split the screen" into two or more parts, accessing more than one file (possibly with a file tree) without opening more editor windows at once, and how ...
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How to set Firefox window size and location on screen via command line?
I want Firefox window to be opened in a specific size, and location on screen using a shell command, for example:
firefox myfile.html size 800x600 location bottom-left
Is there such a command?
...
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Retrieve the window name and role
I'm running Eclipse and I detached some of the windows. Now I have 4 windows linked to Eclipse. What I need is to be able to identify each individual window and be able to control it.
If I run tools ...
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1answer
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specify geometry of a new gnuplot window in lxde
I have a script that runs a calculation and then plots the result using gnuplot script file. The problem is that I need to make more than one plot and I don't want windows to cover each other.
I ...
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1answer
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How to configure a shortcut to open a window accessed by right click on the systray icon?
The application I am referring to is Turpial and it is a Twitter client.
The problem is to open the window I need to send twits, I have to right click on a systray icon and select an option. In the ...
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1answer
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Control Initial size of xfce4-terminal?
As I didn't see the option to configure start window size of xfce4's terminal program , is it configurable ?
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1answer
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Shell script: find iconized programs , if found , activate it
Stardict uses a tray icon , also allows multiple instance of itself , but sadly , i don't use a panel , so no notification area available.
But when I hit on close , it minimized to tray , is there a ...
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1answer
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send keystroke to process
I'd like to run some applications in fullscreen. Even though they don't have an explicit such option, it is possible with the metacity Alt-F11 command.
So, I thought I could create such an input like ...
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1answer
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using terminal (mac os x) to move position of an applications window
An application - AI Writer (http://www.iawriter.com/) - somehow got stuck off screen with only the corner showing. I can't grab it or use other means to move it from that position.
All new windows ...
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1answer
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Group and lock certain windows to a workspace in Gnome 3
Is it possible to group certain windows to always occupy the same area and always be in the same workspace? If so, how?
For example I'm using Eclipse and I have multiple detached windows and for ...
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2answers
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Is it possible to retrieve the active window process/title in Gnome?
I need a solution for getting the current active (focused) window information on a Gnome 2 desktop. I'm mostly interested in the process running that window and window title.
Is it possible?
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How can I disable terminal resizing
Vim scripts sometimes resize the whole shell (in my case the Taglist plugin).
I don't want this behavior, which is possible with the shell command resize, too.
Is there a way to suppress the whole ...
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1answer
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Spawn 6 windows in 2 rows in the i3 window manager
How can I bind a key that spawns (via the exec command) six terminal windows? I managed to figure out how to do this, but all windows were on one row. What I would like to have is that 3 on top and 3 ...
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1answer
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Open PDF previewer width specific size and position and “always on top” from command line
I'm using latexmk -pdf -pvc to keep compiling my LaTeX files to PDFs while they are displayed in evince. I'm doing that a lot with different files and I keep needing to zoom the PDF content, resize ...
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1answer
879 views
How to convert Windows 7 partitions to qcow2?
I know I can use qemu-img tool to convert a raw partition into a image file. But Windows 7 has two partitions. I tried:
qemu-img convert /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 win7.qcow2
But the generated file does ...
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0answers
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Gnome3/Archlinux move windows with keys?
Looking for an app that will allow me to move my Gnome3 windows with keys like "Ctrl+Alt+Home" to move to top left corner of the screen.
Essentially, this is what Winsplit revolution does on windows.
...
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1answer
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Forcing Skype window resize (under Gnome)
Using Skype 2.2 on Linux, the video which is reproduced seems to be limited to 320x240; the default options to resize the window are disabled.
Is there a way to force a resize of this window? Just ...
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How to make progress dialog for Bash in XFCE?
Previously, in KDE, this was simple -- I called KDialog with number of steps, I got DCOP handle in return, then I called dcop with that reference and step, and progress dialog got updated.
However, ...
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1answer
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What is the max number of x-clients?
I am developing an x-server implementation, and I want to make it as similar to the current one as possible. I read through the documentation, but I couldn't find anything specific. In particular, ...
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1answer
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Problem with maximizing windows on extended desktop (2 monitors)
I'm running Mint 11, with Compiz activated. I have extended desktop over 2 monitors. But I have issues when I need to maximize windows - it's stretched over 2 monitors, not inside one. I know that ...
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How to refresh a window by terminal? Or how to simulate `F5`?
I would like a way to refresh a specific window by the terminal.
Probably I will need a comand to find the id or the name of the window and a command to refresh it.
It looks like xrefresh cannot do ...
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Override the window title for an arbitrary window in KDE and set a custom window title
Using KDE here, but there might be a solution that works with other desktops environments too. I often am dealing with many many windows. Most windows contain many tabs (e.g. a Dolphin window with ...
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Does window minimizing free memory usage?
Both the undisplayed maximized window and minimized window are invisible to the end user. By undisplayed I mean an inactive maximized window covered by the active window.
There is a difference ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to make a window occupy half the screen?
Is there a keyboard shortcut I can use to make a window occupy the left or right half of the screen? I'm using a modified version of Ubuntu. On Mac I just use Divvy but I'm not sure if there is a ...
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How do I find the X window ID under the mouse pointer in bash?
From a bash script, is there some way to get the ID of the X window under the mouse pointer?
(edit) I need the process to be non-interactive.
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1answer
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How do I find the window dimensions and position accurately?
I've been trying to figure out the size of a window for use in a small script. My current technique is using wmctrl -lG to find out the dimensions. However, the problem is this:
The x and y figures ...
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1answer
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tell xfce to resize all windows when external monitor unplugged
I wrote a nice little script that changes my monitor outputs according to whether an external monitor is connected or not and whether the laptop lid is open or closed or not and so on.
That works ...
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2answers
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Can you tell a window to spawn behind others?
I have a script that recompiles and relaunches a software project I am building in linux. However, I don't usually want to see my program's window immediately after it has launched, as I want to keep ...
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1answer
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Theme config files for programs of common GUI toolkits
As a follow up to my previous question, I learned that theming in windows (when using a tiling window manager) could be achieved by modifying config files for the different GUI toolkits, for instance ...
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Why Mac applications never get “closed”?
I'm a Linux/Windows/Mac user. I like all systems, *nixes more than Windows, but I like all nonethless.
I started using a Mac this year, and a difference between Linux and Windows that I can't ...
