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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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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Different Desktop for Different Users
How do I (if possible) set different default desktop environments for different users in linux?
e.g. when user X login, Gnome Shell starts, when user Y login, Gnome starts. (I'm using ubuntu if it ...
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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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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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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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x11vnc window manager
I am using x11vnc and started it so it created the X server by itself like this:
x11vnc -localhost -rfbauth -create /root/.vnc/passwd
But the VNC session created, does not have a window manager, ...
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Change status bar applications' default icon
in fvwm, you can change the default icon of any window using Style <regex> Icon <icon_name.xpm>. In other words, I want to over ride the default icon set for an application without having ...
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Resize window to half screen width in KDE 3.5
I am using a legacy version of Red Hat that uses KDE 3.5.4. I do not have the ability to install additional software. I have become rather addicted to the modern windowing feature of snapping to ...
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In Openbox, is it possible to execute a command in a matching window, or open a new one if no match exists?
Essentially, I'm looking for a way to keep one terminal open running tmux, and open new windows inside of the session rather than spawning new terminals.
On pushing a key sequence, I'd like to open a ...
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Manage Windows in different ways on different workspaces/activites in KDE 4.5 possible?
I'm just wondering if it's possible to on one workspace (or maybe activity) to use Tiling, and use normal management on another, maybe change some grouping settings on another.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is it possible to force chromium show the “window control icons” on the left
I'm not running Gnome or Ubuntu,
But I also want those (minimize, maximze, close) icons to be visible on the left as well,
without touching the source code, is there any way to make it work ?
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GTK::Socket and Gtk::Plug unexpected behaviour under Gnome and FVWM2
The following code works fine if run within FVWM2. But if you change desktop to Gnome, then the embedded window is destroyed instead of being embedded.
Why is that? What am I missing?...
The code ...
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Compiz Window Picker plugin for XFCE4?
Is there a separate window picker software (like the one in Compiz or Present Window in KDE4) ? I'm running xfce4
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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 active tabs on windows by terminal? wmctrl doesn't have option available
I'd like improve a script of mine that uses firefox to perform tasks. I need activate a window and a tab with a specific name. For example, the window name could be Mozilla Firefox and the tab ...
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Task Switcher inside VNC
I run a VNC client (tightvnc) along with other applications on a Windows machine. Inside my VNC session, I typically have several xterms and gvim windows open. How can I switch between the ...
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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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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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How can I switch window managers in Gnome 3?
I normally enjoy using Gnome 3 and gnome-shell in Fedora 16. However, I would like to temporarily run a non-compositing window manager such as metacity so that some wine games can have full control of ...
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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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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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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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Fluxbox time is wrong?
I'm using fluxbox on Arch, and the time is displayed incorrectly in the panel. The time works in XFCE, so I'm not sure why it isn't working in fluxbox.
Is there a way to set the time in fluxbox from ...
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Trouble getting a dual monitor setup to work properly (color palette/flickering issues)
I have dual screen monitor setup.
There are applications (like VLC), where everything works out of the box. If you fullscreen an application, you can use your other screen normally. This is the setup ...
