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What process created this window with no PID associated? [duplicate]
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What process created this X11 window?
I need to kill a process that spawned a window which seems to have no PID associated with it. At least that is what xdotool says:
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Find creator of resource in X [duplicate]
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What process created this X11 window?
Recently I've been bugged by a mysterious invisible window in X on my Ubuntu machine.
It takes the form of an always-top-most window with ...
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Find the processes making a window [duplicate]
OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64,
Kernel: 5.10.84-1-MANJARO,
DE: Cinnamon 5.0.7
Everytime I start my computer and log in, there is a 1x1 unnamed window with a settings cog icon, at first I ignored it, but now ...
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Who's got the other end of this unix socketpair?
I want to determine which process has the other end of a UNIX socket.
Specifically, I'm asking about one that was created with socketpair(), though the problem is the same for any UNIX socket.
I ...
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list graphical processes from terminal
Do no confuse the question here with how to list processes graphically, that is not what I am asking.
In the Terminal, how can i see which processes have a GUI?
as in things like firefox, vlc, geany,...
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How to set custom property with xprop and open that program in one line?
I tried this:
xprop -id $(gedit & echo $!) -f MY_VAR1 8s -set MY_VAR1 MyCustomVar
Than i tried to xprop and click on the gedit window - MY_VAR1 was not present there.
So i thought maybe i should ...
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How do I exit the window manager on the current X display?
Let's say I have the window manager Blackbox running on two different X displays, e.g. :0.0 and :1.0 launched from tty1 and tty2 respectively. From a terminal (emulator), how do I exit (kill) the ...
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Is it possible to know the source (application) of the clipboard?
I've noticed that sometimes clipboard contents become unavailable if the source application (where the content was copied from) is closed.
This leads me to wonder if it's possible to know what the ...
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Prioritise X applications with focus
Is there a way to prioritise X applications with focus, preferably both in terms of CPU and I/O?
Something like all X applications are niced and ioniced down in priority, but when they gain focus ...
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How are window-ids given out by MATE window manager?
While trying to write a script involving wmctrl ( since MATE on LMDE 2 doesn't offer as many advanced features as other WM configurations involving Compiz, which I don't have on LMDE 2), I came across ...
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name of binary vs. name in GUI
In icedove>preferences>attachments, for 'JEPG image' one can select 'Image Viewer' or 'Use other ...'. It turns out that 'Image Viewer' is actually '/usr/bin/eog' on my system. I only know that ...
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"This computer has only 0 bytes disk remaining" message from Linux running on Virtual box
This is the setup. I started seeing this message today from Linux Manjaro installed on Virtual box under windows 10. The issue is that I have lots of disk space, both allocated for the Linux and also ...
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Cinnamon: Which software project "owns" the "Display" configuration dialog?
Cinnamon 2.8.8 64-bit, Linux Mint 17.3 'Rosa'
Menu > Preferences > Display
The dialog allows to enable and disable (multiple) monitors, and position them relative to each other with drag and drop.
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