In the X window system, a window manager controls the way your desktop works, including how the windows look and act.
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Intel 82845G Video Crash workaround
I have the Intel 82845G video card and trying to get X11 working with it. It routinely crashes with artifacts. I know the existing history with this driver and X11 and I am about to buy a replacement ...
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Terminal and web browser combination
I often use only two applications, terminal and web browser.
I like the tmux application which enables to split a terminal window into more regions. I noticed that I can open lynx in another region ...
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I can't kill xfwm4
$ ps aux | grep xfwm
xralf 4365 1.2 0.4 19888 9444 ? S 10:45 0:00 xfwm4 --replace --display :0.0 --sm-client-id 204399537-7a38-4196-8c31-43cf2f3542ac
xralf 4369 0.0 0.0 3324 ...
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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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mint 14 mate: window manager doesn't work after reinstall mate-panel & mate-applets
After doing a
sudo apt-get --purge remove mate-panel mate-applets
and a
sudo apt-get install mate-panel mate-applets
for trying to get rid of a trayicon issue on my system, the mate window ...
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I need a very light weight GUI to run under Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) with a twist
I am in kind of a pickle. I have a VPS, for which I am paying next to nothing and grandfathered in. Therefore I am unwilling to part with it. And I want it to perform a smidgen more by making it ...
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Custom access/launcher
I'm not sure what to call what I want, so I'll just describe what I want to do.
What I'm doing is setting up an old laptop, with gentoo, for my kids. I want to have some program on there that, with a ...
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Don't snap windows to edge when moving between monitors
I am running Linux-mint 13 with XFCE. When I drag a window to the side of the screen it snaps to the side and fills up that vertical half of the screen.
This is great, but I have two graphics cards ...
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What program or feature is overriding my “Unity style” keyboard shortcuts in DockbarX?
I have DockbarX installed with the option "Use Unity style shortcuts (Super+number)" enabled.
Recently I am unable to activate the 2nd application with Super+Shift+2 (I'm on azerty).
When I use that ...
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1answer
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How to restart KDE window decorations without loosing the running X session
For graphics editing of some special graphics formats I am using a java program called imagej. This has the annoying bug that one special function tends to kill KDE's window decorations if it has too ...
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2answers
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Starting certain applications fullscreen in Xfce
Is it possible to make Xfce window manager to open certain applications fullscreen by default? For example i want Emacs in Xfce to be always run fullscreen on start. I know how to execute specifically ...
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1answer
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How to keep YouTube video fullscreen after moving mouse to other screen in Awesome WM?
I've managed to get YouTube Flash videos fullscreen by using two tips, but whenever I move the mouse pointer to a different screen (thereby changing the application focus) the fullscreen mode is ...
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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 window manager in Fedora 18
Fedora 17 would let me choose my window manager on login; now with Fedora 18 not only can I not choose it on login, but I can't find a way to change it anywhere.
Is there a way to easily switch ...
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1answer
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Are the keyboard layouts in X.org actually called the X.org layouts or what?
Just need to know it, semantically. So most Linux/BSD systems using the X windows manager are using these layouts. For example, the "US International with dead keys" is quite different in X from the ...
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How to get cinnamon window styling
I think I may have chosen Mint-with no codecs from the downloads section. What should I do to get the nicer cinnamon window styling as in this page?. I have attached a file to show how my window title ...
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2answers
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Bind MetaL in icewm
Anybody managed to bind the Windows key in IceWM ? It seems I can't bind it to anything since I disabled the "treat as Ctrl+Alt" option.
# Treat Super/Win modifier as Ctrl+Alt
# ModSuperIsCtrlAlt=1 ...
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Arch Linux, Openbox and Desktop
I' m installing Arch with OpenBox, I' ve done everything but when I type
openbox-session
I have this error
Failed to open the display from the DISPLAY environment variable.
What's the problem?
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Enable compiz window grid with visual effects set to none. Ubuntu 10.04
I have to disable "Visual Effects" (system -> preferences-> appearance -> visual effects -> none) because I get a terrible flicker/blinking when it is enabled, but I'd really like to use compiz window ...
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3answers
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Window manager and desktop environment for touchscreens
What are some good choices for desktop environments and window manager for touchscreens? Currently I am using XFCE with custom GTK settings for making the controls larger, but that is far from ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
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In the mwmrc file, how can I disable the mouse from resizing or moving a window?
In my local .mwmrc file I have disabled moving and resizing window from the system menu, but I can still use the mouse to move or resize the window. How do I prevent users from doing that with the ...
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1answer
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How to solve window manager problem in Linux Mint 14 (Xfce) after installing LXDE?
I like the way Xfce works on top of Linux Mint 14 Nadia (Quantal) - but I also like LXDE that I want to have in parallel. Mint 14 has no LXDE "version" now, and that is too bad.
I heard that ...
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What is the architecture of Mac OS X's windowing system?
I am familiar with how the X11 system works, where clients connect via a socket to the server process and send operations to the window server to perform certain operations on their behalf.
But I do ...
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Gnome, KDE, XFCE… which is most simple and customizable?
This'll be my first Linux install, so I've never had to choose between a desktop environment (I come from OS X) -- forgive me if I'm not fully literate on where exactly the OS ends and the desktop ...
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Acrobat Reader and PCManFM don't play nice in E17
I am using Arch Linux, and I was using Awesome WM for quite some time before switching to E17 recently.
For the past year, I think, I was using PCManFM as my file manager, and being dissatisfied with ...
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How to get lighter (more white) themes for Xfce?
Xfce seems bathing in an ocean of endless gray, unless using dark themes.
Are there Xfce themes that are clear, bright, whiter?
And also: is there a way to change the colors in a given theme in ...
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Window content freezes
I recently started using Kanotix, a Debian based distro that loads itself into RAM on boot, and i'm loving it. But this is the second time I have this problem, and I was wondering what caused it and ...
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2answers
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Is there a way to virtually split my monitor (for maximizing windows)
My question is essentially if I can fake the behaviour one gets using usual window managers on linux if one has a dual head setup. That is, if I maximize a window it maximizes only on one part of the ...
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3answers
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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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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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Windows Managers vs Login Managers Vs Display Managers Vs Desktop Environment
I posted a question and noticed people weren't distinguishing correctly between many of these things: Windows Managers vs Login Managers Vs Display Managers Vs Desktop Environment. Can someone please ...
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What is the difference between the various tiling modes in KWin, and how do I use them?
There are 3 tiling modes in KDE: spiral, columns and floating. What does each do and how do make them work for me? For example, spiral seems to cut my screen in half then the next half another way. Is ...
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How to separate Awesome's `rc.lua` configuration into multiple files?
I've just moved to Awesome WM from OpenBox. I like that it's very extensible, customizable and I have huge control about window layout. I like structured and organized things and I'd like to separate ...
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1answer
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Control-q-? key binding in Awesome WM
I wish to configure my Awesome Window Manager so that the keyboard shortcuts begin with ctrlq.
ctrlq-x, ctrlq-y, ctrlq-z, and so on...
I've attempted to modify the /etc/xdg/awesome/rc.lua config ...
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1answer
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How to tell xfce (or an application) where to put the window when starting?
I have a number of different boxes, all running debian and xfce. When I launch multiple applications (specifically xterm windows) on one machine, they end up all in the center of the desktop, and they ...
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Standard solution for displaying messages either on shell or with window managers gui
Is there a standard solution to display messages from within bash scripts eiter on the commandline if the shell is a login shell or in a new window in the present window manager's GUI? Specifically I ...
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Visually-transparent & Input-transparent Windows
I'm a Java programmer who's rather new to Linux. I'm on Suse / Gnome and I need to create a window which:
Is visually translucent/transparent. This is the usual alpha blending
that composes a ...
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1answer
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What kind of notification is Firefox sending when a download has finished?
I'm using the dynamic window manager of suckless (dwm). I noticed that firefox is able to send nice notifications when a download has finished. See the two figures
When I'm on a different tag, I ...
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1answer
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Does Gnome Shell use Mutter?
In Wikipedia is written that Gnome Shell in Gnome 3 uses Mutter window manager.
But ps x | grep mutter shows that Mutter is not running. Moreover I had experience with working Gnome Shell before I ...
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1answer
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How to set awesome's wibox visible only for certain tags?
I'd like to have special wiboxes for certain tags like multimedia, development. I couldn't find any option in wibox for that and I'm newbie to awesome.
I think it can be done using some event ...
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1answer
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Unity problems & Searching for a good WM [closed]
I am a front-end developer doing primarily HTML/CSS and JavaScript. My past Unix experience was on FreeBSD. I used it for a year or so, and was quite satisfied about its stability and the lack of any ...
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1answer
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Understanding linux desktop
I use debian wheezy xfce and want to set up my desktop. But I read some settings are redundant. Hence I want to understand how everything works, but I am massively lost. Can someone please sort, ...
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2answers
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Which window manager has Python bindings?
I've been coding bits here and there with Python and I'm most interested in Desktop Environments, for which I always have ideas I want to try out.
I have tried to play around with python-xlib but ...
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EOG does not open focused
Something wrong started few days ago. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome.
When I double click on a image file, the Eye of Gnome (EOG) opens and shows the image.
But the problem is that the focus ...
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2answers
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Is there any way to prevent focus being grabbed by another application?
I am getting annoyed by windows under X opening and taking focus away from the current window which has focus. This is particularly annoying when you are typing a password into a password dialog and ...
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1answer
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Alt+tab on Fluxbox
I've been using fluxbox on my netbook, and have been very pleased. That is, with everything but one feature. I would really like it if I could use fluxbox with the added functionality that when I use ...
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3answers
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Which desktop environments let you switch to a non-default window manager?
I used to use fvwm as the window manager under Gnome 2, but as I understand Gnome 3 can't be used with a non-default window manager, so I'm looking for alternatives. Are there other desktop ...
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4answers
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Graphical interface on a remote server?
I've got a VPS with Debian running on it. I connect to it using SSH and configure it in a console mode.
Now I want to install some graphical interface to it and use my VPS in graphical mode from my ...
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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 ...
