Questions tagged [window-manager]
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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i3 wm is changing my window size when i come back to gnome
I recently installed i3 Window Manager and am still getting used to it. When I switch back to GNOME, my terminal and other applications retain the tiling layout from i3, requiring me to manually ...
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In KWin, how to snap windows to side independently on separate virtual desktops?
[Fedora KDE] Assume I have two virtual desktops (or activities, the issue appears there too). I have two windows open on desktop 1 - one snapped to the left edge and one to the right edge. Similarly ...
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Moving floating windows around with keyboard shortcuts
I'm currently using a Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon 6.2.9 installation that is a couple days old and I want to use some features I had on a previous tiling window manager with XFCE. In particular, I want to ...
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Write the contents of a .conf file into a variable located in a separate .conf file
I am configuring my hyprland.conf file and I am attempting to do it in a clean and modular fashion. I am trying for a modular fashion so that I can share my dotfiles and someone else can change which ...
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Make GNOME recognize WM_NAME and WM_ICON_NAME
I'm launching Battle.net with https://usebottles.com/, and it creates two windows: one for the launcher itself, and one for the game. Both windows are missing an icon and show "steam_proton" ...
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Linux from Scratch: custom GUI
If I follow the Linux From Scratch (LFS) manual, how do I go about setting up my own graphical user interface, that is, the "desktop environment"? I'd like to do it by using an HTML solution ...
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Is it possible to use Compiz as a bare compositor, aside of another window manager?
On my newer notebook, running Xorg in Suse Tumbleweed, I have spent some time to configure a window manager, customizing the toolbar, the keyboard shortcuts, etc etc, and to add a bit of eye candy I ...
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X11 Xlib: ungrab/disable button press of external window
I'm creating a window manager for kiosks (and alike) using Xlib. There's one scenario where I'd like to disable all button presses to a specific window (to disable any touch input like a video-player ...
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Send a mouseclick to an X window in the background, without bringing it to the foreground
How do I send a mouseclick action / hold mousebutton to a window in the background, without bringing the window to the front? I want to be able to interact with other windows while holding down a ...
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Kanshi crashes Qtile Wayland
I am currently trying to use kenshi to automatically use my external display’s when connecting to my dock. But doing so either results in Qtile crashing or not recognizing my displays and staying with ...
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xfce4 as default Windowmanager on Rocky Linux 9
Following this setup routine I installed XFCE4 on Rocky Linux 9. But this does not startup the xfce4-window-manager in init 5. If I go to init 3 and then startxfce4 as root XFCE4 is being started. ...
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Garbled screen when using Cygwin64 XWin
I am using Cygwin64 the latest version, the shell part works fine, but when I try to start a local X11 session, the screen is garbled, this is the case when using xwin and xwin -rootless when I use ...
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Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
When changing the hostname in the icewm-session, the application startup breaks down. Such errors are written in the logs .xsession-errors when launching applications: Authorization required, but no ...
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How to disable closing or minimizing X window
I want to disable closing or minimizing one of my windows (or to be more accurate, to remove the minimize and close buttons from the window). I was trying to change the _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS ...
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Find X Atom of given Window?
Using DWM as my Window-Manager under Archlinux I don't have any patches to handle context menus or "right-click" functionalities. This being the case I decided to write a concise Bash alias ...
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