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Launch an application with window decorator hints, x/y coordinates, size, etc
Is there a way to launch an application with a given size, position, and window decorator hints from the command line? I'd like to lock a certain window in a certain place at a size and without a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
