Questions tagged [window-management]
These questions are about management of desktop environment windows in general (positioning, resizing, dragging, …) – NOT specific to some particular window manager. If the question happens to be in a specific desktop environment or is about translucency, refresh rates, tearing, … please select the tag associated with your DE together with the window-manager tag.
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How to resize a window independently of the window is it locked to?
I am fairly new to using Ubuntu and have found if I snap a window to the left of the screen (either by dragging it to the edge of the screen or pressing Super+Left), and snap another window to the ...
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How to open child windows on same display as cursor in Gnome?
I'm doing a bunch of work in Pure Data on Ubuntu 18.04 & Gnome 3.28 with a dual-monitor setup in which the secondary monitor is to the left of the primary. Working in Pure Data involves frequently ...
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Cursor position, dragging and resizing windows... with multiple monitors
I was finally able to get my four identically sized screens to work together, with three on one graphics card ( GeForce GTX 750 ) and one on a second card ( GeForce GT 730 ) in X11. It was a really ...
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Libreoffice's insert special character window looks HUGE (can't resize to smaller)
I write this post because I have the doubt about this being a libreoffice bug, a GNOME bug... or what could be the cause, because I don't seem to find and issue related to this anywhere else.
When I ...
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Open programs with a specified position and size in Gnome 3
I use Gnome 3 alias Gnome Shell on Fedora 20. echo $GDMSESSION outputs gnome and pgrep -l "compiz|metacity|mutter|openbox" produces no output.
How can I open each window as if I'd done a super+right ...
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How to get a dialog box back to front?
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and experienced a problem with dialogs that don't have a "representation" in the task switch menu.
for instance, when I start Eclipse Luna (Kepler is working) and switch to ...
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How can I obtain the X window handle of an embedded window or control?
I have created a program that I embed an Emacs instance in, similar to - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17982831/emacs-embedded-in-a-qt-application.
As can be seen there when the parent window ...
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How to display an application window in all workspaces simultaneously (Gnome 42.9)
In Ubuntu 20.04 (Gnome) and earlier, one could show a given window in all workspaces simultaneously.
Can that be done in 22.04 (Gnome Shell 42.9).
If I have Gedit with configuration data as App Z, and ...
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Xfce: launching a program on another desktop without wmctrl
Running in Xfce with several desktops defined, I want to launch a program and have it start in a desktop that's different from the one which has the current focus.
I know how to write script which ...
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How can I set a group of windows to focus when one is focused
I'm looking for a WM or a method for Cinnamon which would allow me to focus a group of windows, bringing them to the front, when any one of them is focused. For example, I have an IDE with 3 windows (...
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FvwmCommand WindowList - get layer information
I'm trying to get information about running windows with all the information that is shown in the menu of "FvwmCommand WindowList" output. (Redhat Linux 7)
The problem with this command is that it ...
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Devilspie2 only detects Firefox windows on a restart; how can I fix this?
I'm trying to use devilspie2 to detect when a Firefox window is opened, and remove its window decorations when it does.
This works, but only if the window is already open when devilspie2 is started; ...
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Make a terminal window 'un-hideable'
I've been trying to get a fully embedded terminal sitting on my desktop. After searching around for some tips I finally almost have it:
xfce4-terminal --hide-menubar --hide-borders --hide-toolbars --...
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Subtle WM in Full Floating Style
I am using Subtle and I am happy with it. But I want to change it to serve all windows in Floating style like all stacking windows manager. Is it possible and how?
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A Panel with FvwmButtons
I am trying to make a simple panel out of FvwmButtons. I want to use it instead of FvwmTaskBar. Because there was too many old stuff in the web I asked for Help here.
I want to understand ...
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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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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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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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Maximised application windows incorrectly positioned after unlocking when using Dash to panel
I'm using Fedora 37 with gnome 43.2.
I prefer a windows style workflow, with a bottom task bar, start menu etc. To achieve this, I've installed the gnome extension "Dash to panel", which ...
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Is it possible to tell xdg-open (or alikes) to open a window in the background?
I am using xdg-open with cronjobs to open our time-management web-app once per hour to log my time (among other repeating things). This works very well, but has an annoying usability problem. Once ...
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Can Sway be used as a full screen compositor
I never like the "desktop" metaphor, so when Wayland rolled around I switched to Sway thinking that a tiling compositor was what I wanted. But after using Sway for a few months I realized ...
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How to minimize all windows on a particular monitor in XFce?
I need to minimize all windows on a specific monitor (monitor0) from the command line. A specific script is run, and it will call for all windows on that screen to close. The effect is the same as ...
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Can I use .desktop to treat a process as a separate app?
I would like to run a special instance of application foo on the GNOME desktop. Normally all foo windows are grouped together, but I'd like one instance to be treated as a separate application bar:
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Is there a way to arrange multiple windows in one window?
I want something like terminator, but not only for terminals, but for any gui apps. Is there anything like this?
May be a tiling wm in a window. Google suggests I can use Xnest or Xephyr to do that. ...
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PCManFM always pops under
Whenever PCManFM opens (Linux Mint 18.1 MATE x64, set as default in the preferences), be it from "Show in Folder" from a download in Chromium, or simply clicking a quick launch icon, it opens ...
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How to force Digikam 5 to have a specific tag in Awesome WM?
It used to be easy to make Digikam appear on the correct screen and tag in Awesome WM using for example rule_any = { class = { "Digikam", […] } }, properties = { tag = tags[1][3] } }. This doesn't ...
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Stop KDE from unmaximizing the window on dragging movement starting close to the window border
I installed Fedora 21 KDE spin recently (KDE 4.14.4). It comes with some nifty window effects, for example a way to tile windows when dragging them close to an edge or a corner of a screen.
But ...
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How to unhide Titlebar and Frame of Pidgin or any application in linux mint?
I played with the application settings of Pidgin and now Pidgin doesn't have any titlebar and frame. I did this with "Right Click on the title bar>More Actions>Special Application Settings>Appearance &...
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Opening a window in a specific workspace?
In Ubuntu 14.04, is it possible (perhaps using wmctrl?) to activate an instance of a window in a specific workspace?
Example: Suppose I'm in workspace 1, and I have a google-chrome window open in ...
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xprop -set _MOTIF_WM_HINTS hides maximized window
I want to hide/show the title bar of a window with a key shortcut. So I got this script from a website (of which I don't have the URL anymore):
#! /bin/sh -x
winid=$(xprop -root | awk '/...
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call a script if a zenity window is minimized, resized or moved
I would like to add an event-catcher, if my the zenity window gets minimized, resized or moved.
I already call a script if the window is closed or the button is pressed in my typebreak script
But I ...
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How to Partition the FvwmButtons
I've read some .fvwm2rc but I still want to know how we partition the FvwmButtons in Fvwm. How can we assign a specific slice to Swallow specific application?
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Adjust font size in multi-head setup with different resolutions
I have a multi monitor setting with the main screen resolution 3840x2160 and two additional screens running on 1920x1080.
When I drag for example a firefox window between the screens, Windows seems to ...
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Start Tor browser in Unity without grabbing focus
I want to start Tor browser in background mode, i.e. I want to open a browser window but I want my terminal to keep the focus. I tried some solutions but they did not work. For instance:
nohup ...
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How can I achieve proper shadow rendering for rounded frameless windows on Linux?
Developing an application launcher I face shadow rendering issues. While macOS handles rounded windows with shadows seamlessly, on Linux, the shadows for such windows appear to support rectangular ...
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Window is resized when moving to other monitor in KDE Plasma
I am using Ubuntu with KDE Plasma 5.27.8 with X11.
I have one laptop monitor and two external monitors.
The external monitors each have 1920x1080 resolution.
The laptop monitor is scaled down to ...
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In KDE4, how do I open a konsole window that is automatically maximized, stays below all windows, and sticks on all desktops?
I am using KDE4.
I'd like to create a keyboard shortcut that would run konsole with a predetermined setting:
window fully maximized
no menus, no tabs, no windows borders
stays below all windows
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gedit from the command line: new window or tab?
I'm trying to customize the behavior of gedit when I launch a new instance from the command line. In the past, the default was "open a new tab if there's a existing window in the current ...
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Can I configure i3 to wrap from my rightmost workspace to my leftmost when I press <mod>+right?
Let's say I have 3 monitors arranged like this:
[] [] []
Is there a way to configure i3 so that if I press <mod>+right when I'm on the rightmost window on the rightmost monitor, it moves focus ...
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How to manage third-party app windows in Linux?
I want to manipulate the windows on a user's desktop.
For example moving a window to a new position, or getting a list of all windows and their titles.
I'm looking for the Linux-equivalent of win32's ...
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fvwm MinOverlapPlacement: automatically arrange windows from left to right instead of top to bottom?
Is there some way to tell fvwm3 to arrange windows from left to right instead of top to bottom?
Currently I am using
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# Placement
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Style * !UsePPosition
Style * UseTransientPPosition
Style ...
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Can't theme programs in Qtile
I followed this guide:
https://github.com/antoniosarosi/dotfiles.
Programs like Thunar, Firefox, and qbittorent don't seem to follow the theme. I installed lxappearance, kvantum, and qt5ct and tried ...
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What should I look for in a window manager?
I'm looking into window managers for the first time and I don't really know how to compare them.
Can somebody please explain some things in the Wikipedia table head?
Type (Stacking|Tiling|Dynamic etc....
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is it possible to align the order of i3 bars in i3 window manager?
I am using two i3bars.
I want bar-0 on top of bar-1 both at the bottom position.
is this possible?
if it's not possible in i3bar config, any tweaks are appreciated in code or configs like using sleep ...
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Altdrag like to resize with mouse left in KDE
Altdrag is efficient. But I want to use mouse left button with other key like Ctrl to resize
Because it's pretty difficult to resize by altdrag with mouse right on a laptop trackpad.
It's very easy to ...
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XFCE: launch application so that closing one closes all
I want to launch multiple applications (e.g. 3 PDF viewers) in a manner that, if you are done and close one of the windows, all of the applications launched together all close as well. What is the ...
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Start multiple Firefox tabs (with 5 seconds interval) Minimized From Bash script
I want to open several tabs from a particular domain each with different assets as defined in a bash script. To avoid getting banned from the server, I open tabs with an interval of 5 seconds as ...
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Can windows on my desktop be automatically arranged to fill in any gaps?
On different desktops I will arrange my windows in such a way to provide the most optimal placement for that workflow. The annoying part of this is then adjusting the size of each window to fill in ...
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Chrome won't snap correctly
Since I upgraded to Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.1, I cannot snap my Chrome Window to the left or the right. It only snaps to the top or the bottom, for both my laptop monitor and also my second monitor. ...
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Open a application on the second Screen
I have one pc with one graphic card and two displays connected (one is a touchscreen).
Openbox is used a window manager.
I try to start two instances of the chromium-browser in the kiosk mode (--...