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How to identify window by clicking in Wayland
Good news, there IS something like this built into Gnome Shell, and unlike xprop works with Xorg and Wayland. Ultimately this may fall into the realm of other tooling if you're using KDE, i3, or ...
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Opening a programme in a floating window in i3
This is how I did it for my Galculator application:
In my i3 config file (~/.config/i3/config) I added the next line:
for_window [class="Galculator" instance="galculator"] floating ...
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Keyboard shortcut to move window to a side in Gnome
tested in the current gnome 3.28 on ubuntu 18.04
SUPER+← moves the window to the left
SUPER+→ moves the window to the right
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Can I change the Cinnamon taskbar to show each open program window separately?
You can accomplish this by right clicking on the Panel, going to "Add applets to the panel", then adding the "Window list" applet.
To remove the part of the panel that groups by icon and requires you ...
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How to move a window up to the level of its parent window in i3wm?
I'd like to expand on the author's answer.
Shift+$mod+Up (move up for w1-a) is very dependent what your current layout is.
Let's say the initial state of the container tree is:
.
├── w1
│ ├── w1-a
...
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How can I set the position that terminal opens at?
As an update, the top answer didn't work for me in Ubuntu 18.04 as of Aug. 2018. What got the job done is Hardware -> Keyboard -> Add new command (By hitting plus sign). Fill in the "Command" field ...
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How to customize window tiling zones/grid?
Cinnamon provided an extension called gtile for enhanced tiling, which might be what you are looking for.
To install the gtile extension: open the Menu -> Settings -> Extensions.
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Opening a programme in a floating window in i3
The proper way to make the currently focused window float in i3 is to run
i3-msg floating enable
This is what your config line does.
The problem now is that i3-msg runs before the window is in focus ...
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Is it possible to have `i3-msg focus <direction>` to not wrap around when there is no window in the given direction
Yes, I implemented this option last year.
Add to your configuration file:
focus_wrapping no
It is available since version 4.15.
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Opening a programme in a floating window in i3
I would like to sum up HubbleTs post with some other dirty workarounds added information:
TLDR: Append && i3-msg "[id=$(xdotool getactivewindow)] floating enable" to your shortcut definition (...
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Is there an equivalent of Hammerspoon (macOS) for Linux?
Hammerspoon is kind of a grab-bag of different capabilities, at least based on what its inbuilt APIs provide. On Mac OS it's a useful tool to work around the lack of open-source core functionality in ...
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How to minimize an application window from command line
You can use xdotool like that:
xdotool search "Mozilla Firefox" windowminimize
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How to identify window by clicking in Wayland
I realised this was something that sway in particular was lacking, so I created a gist to do it.
Behold: wlprop
Type wlprop into a terminal and click a window, it will give you the sway tree output ...
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How do I open a file with ansible-vault edit from inside vim?
I've been doing this from inside vim when editing an encrypted vault file:
:!ansible-vault --vault-password-file=~/.vault_pass decrypt %
Make a change and then re-encrypt the file:
:!ansible-vault -...
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How to put a window on more than one desktop, but not all, in kde
You need to use Wayland, and not X11, in order for this to work.
Then assign windows to desktops by means of your choice, e.g. right-click on the title bar > Move to Desktop > ... will be a list ...
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How to identify window by clicking in Wayland
In Sway, you can grep for your app against swaymsg -t get_tree, which is like xprop, but for all windows at once.
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Xterm: working with multiple tabs
The true xterm is a powerful and versatile tool that adheres to the Unix Philosophy of "Do one thing and do it well."
xterm is by no means a "basic" or "bootstrap" terminal. In fact, "TERM=xterm" ...
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How to move a window up to the level of its parent window in i3wm?
My answer to this problem is having an i3helper bash script which can do this independently of layout via focus parent and marks. The one extracted command is:
#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
moveToParent)
...
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Launching applications from a terminal with specific window size and location
Run xwinifo and click on the window of the application you want to start.
Note down the line at the bottom
-geometry WxH+X+Y
where W, H are the width and Height, X, Y are the coordinates of the ...
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Mirror a single X application on a dual-monitor setup with Openbox
For this specific requirement with X11 and Openbox, I don't know if it is possible to do such a hackery, but with VNC is quite easy to achieve what you are after.
Mirroring a single X application ...
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On Gnome, is it possible to tile windows vertically?
On vanilla GNOME 4X this isn't implemented. But good extensions exist for this exact purpose:
Tactile is a very interesting approach, and works for me fairly well.
gTile is also nice.
Tiling ...
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Keyboard shortcut to move window to a side in Gnome
In Ubuntu 20.04, the shortcuts can be changed by opening up Keyboard Shortcuts (e.g. by pressing Super and searching for it) and editing "View split on right" and "View split on left&...
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How to forbid windows from stealing focus in XFce4?
If nothing from previous answers helped you, you must additionally go to Settings-> Window Manager Tweaks -> Accessiblity tab and unselect "Raise windows when any mouse button is pressed"
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xdotool: How to search for window by title and class with different patterns (similar to AutoHotkey)
Short and elegant answer (which uses wmctrl):
result=$(wmctrl -l | grep 'TODO - gvim' | grep -Eo '0x[0-9a-f]+')
The resulting window ID is in hex, so you need to convert it to decimal (used by ...
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How do I open a file with ansible-vault edit from inside vim?
I managed to do that using
%! ansible-vault decrypt --output -
To encrypt the buffer, use
%! ansible-vault encrypt --output -
It would be great to be able to automate this. I achieved some degree of ...
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How to identify window by clicking in Wayland
There is a draft of xdg-foreign protocol extension, which allows obtaining handles of wl_surface's, created by other Wayland clients. Having the handle, you can obtain from it anything you can obtain ...
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Opening a programme in a floating window in i3
Was searching for a way to have a application always start in tiling but at the same time have a way to open it in floating (without changing all the other instances of this app beeing send to ...
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How to crop windows (not images) under Linux?
An option would be using Xephyr to run a separate X server in a window. You can then run applications in that server (by setting the DISPLAY environment variable), move them to be partially off-screen,...
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Minimize button loses window Linux Mint 19.1 Mate
Linux Mint 19.1
Mate GUI
Issue: Minimized applications keep running but disappear/don't show up in panel.
Suggestion:
Right click on the panel.
Select "Reset Panel"
Panel will reset, disappear and ...
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How to add a fullscreen button to xfwm4 window buttons?
As of version 4.14.0, xfwm does not offer the functionality to add a 'fullscreen' button to window decoration. Even if it did though, window decorations disappear in fullscreen mode, so it could not ...
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