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How to change gravity (win_gravity) of a window?
Skype always pops messages at lower right corner of screen.
Does changing widow gravity (win_gravity, defaults to NorthWest) for Skype alters pop-ups position (what I want to do actually)?
Got no ...
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Hide all open windows on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Is it possible to have a button on the side bar to hide every open window on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
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How to know if a specific program is open
Using a command line in terminal, I want to be displayed 1 if a program (for example Firefox or Chromium) is open and 0 otherwise.
Edit: By "open", I mean "is running on the current machine and has a ...
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Command to hide everything except viewport in terminal window?
Is there a way to see only the viewport for terminal (Mac OS X 10.8.4)? (That is, can I hide the open/close/minimize buttons.)
The need is for more for a visual desire than a practical one. I'm ...
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Variants of tilda-emulator replacements
Tilda is beautiful! But I really need at least one additional feature except show/hide on hotkey: hotkey to maximize terminal window.
UPD:
A friend of mine showed me the yeahconsole + urxvf and ...
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Bring up all terminal windows to front of screen?
I usually have 2-3 terminals open when programming on Fedora, but I find it quite tedious having to click and manually bring every terminal to the front screen when I compile and run.
Are there any ...
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Draw a borderless webkit window on the desktop?
I have a browser page which I'd like to transparently burn over my desktop behind all other windows. I'd like the background of the page to be transparent so that my wallpaper shows through, but I'd ...
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Drag windows with right mouse button in Linux Mint KDE
I like how you can drag a window with the cursor anywhere in the window by pressing Alt + left mouse.
Is it possible to drag a window by pressing and holding just the right mouse button?
Minimize ...
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change terminal window default location
How do I change the default gnome-terminal location on screen. I checked out the preferences but they only have option to change default size. I also checked out .gconf/apps/gnome-terminal/ but didnt ...
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Open window maximised on X startup
I have a .xsession script. I am opening a gnome-terminal in background. I would like to open it maximised. I use Cinnamon as window manager. I do understand usually window manager is responsible for ...
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How to close any window in Awesome WM?
The shortcut to close individual applications completely depends on the application developer. Some examples:
Ctrl-q for Firefox
Meta-F4 for Chromium
Ctrl-Shift-q for GNOME Shell
To close ...
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Force TreeSheets to open a new file in a new window instead of tabbing?
I am using the application TreeSheets, which is something like Excel on steroids. And I want to be able to view two "spreadsheets" side-by-side. Sadly, the application itself does not offer this as an ...
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How can I restore default window size in KVM/QEMU
In KVM/QEMU machine window size by default matches guest OS resolution. But if I resize windows (accidently) how to restore default size?
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Windows losing focus on Gnome on Fedora 17
I have a problem using Gnome on Fedora 17 where, after a period of time, I cannot regain focus on any windows; that is, I can only see the desktop screen. If I Alt-Tab I can see the other windows, but ...
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How can I save/restore window positions when I undock/dock my laptop?
I have a laptop with a docking station that has a large monitor connected to it. When the laptop is docked, I use the monitor as my primary display, and the laptop screen as a secondary display.
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Why can't I resize or maximize Firefox 17 under Sawfish?
I just upgraded from Firefox 16 to Firefox 17.0.1, and my Firefox windows lost their maximize button. The maximize-window command does nothing either. Switching to full screen mode in Firefox makes ...
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How do I resize the active window to 50% with wmctrl?
I would like to resize the window to the left half of the screen.
A solution to achieve that would be to use wmctrl and keybind the right command to a keyboard shortcut.
But the manpage only shows ...
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Inconsistent behaviour of “wmctrl -i -a <WIN>”
I'm trying to use dmenu and wmctrl to write a script that would present to me a list of all currently open windows and then switch to the one I select. It looks something like this:
Now, I'm using ...
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Fluxbox, how to launch some applications in a specific workspace at startup
I would like to launch some applications at startup, but I want them to be in a specific workspace.
I can edit the fluxbox startup-script to launch those applications, but I don't know how to specify ...
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How can I set the position that terminal opens at?
I'd like Terminal to open near the bottom of my screen. Is there a way to set the default size and position?
I'm using Linux Mint 13, Cinnamon.
