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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Bad window stacking in KDE while using Unity3D accross distributions
I'm on KDE Plasma 6.4.5, Qt 6.10.0, KF6 6.18.0. My current distribution is Arch. I'm using X11, not Wayland because of another bug that makes using Wayland very difficult.
Sometimes, all of a sudden, ...
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Color banding in Qt OpenGL applications?
I'm running KDE on Wayland. I've noticed that some Qt applications that render using OpenGL show significant color banding, as if they're running with less-than-24-bit color. What could be causing ...
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Can't display multiple windows in XFCE
I’m running XFCE on Linux and I’ve run into a strange problem : I can only see one window at a time.
If I open several applications (e.g. Firefox, Terminal, VScode,...), they all appear in the top ...
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Window manager grabbing control of keyboard
I am using arch with hyprland(omarchy). I am trying to write a program which reads and outputs keys from my keyboard which requires access to /dev/input/event11(my keyboard) and when I run sudo evtest ...
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Is it possible to change screen resolution without a desktop environment or a window manager
I looked up how I can use commands to resize the display, but all of them seem to require a window manager or a desktop environment, for example, xrandr, but it says No display found. I'm assuming ...
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With the Openbox window manager, can I force a window to have window decorations?
I am running a closed-source Java application in the Openbox window manager. The application runs, but the application's main window is displayed without window decorations. Presumably, the ...
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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?
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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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