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Questions relating to the behaviour of application windows, this is a very generic tag and you should consider also adding tags specific to your question.

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There is a bug in Opera dev tools that prevents the window from being resized or moved if undocked. I was able to get "Configure Special Window Settings..." and a couple of properties, but ...
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Is there an app for locating mouse pointer on the screen? I typically have many windows on screen and lose track of where the mouse pointer is, especially if it is similar in color to the screen. I'...
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At night, my fully dimmed screen is still too bright. I used to (in 22.04) run a small python script to generate a black background window with 0.5 transparency. This reduced the light even further. ...
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In Ubuntu, some programs have window menu programs that won't show up. Ubuntu 22.04 Latest Audacity app image: audacity-linux-3.7.5-x64-22.04.AppImage File -> Export Audio... I see this: Notice the ...
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Yesterday I installed 24.04 and am having just one problem: it's the behavior of window switching with Alt+Tab. What I want is for Alt+Tab to work the way it used to where one press gets you to the ...
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I want to customize the titlebar/headerbar in gnome. I want the close, maximize and minimize buttons to be squares instead of the original circles. I found out I can do that in gtk.css file and the ...
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When I open a new Gnome terminal using CTRL+ALT+T, I would like it to take a position different from the last terminal I opened (or the last two, three etc.). I have a wide monitor, and there is room ...
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The keyboard works fine in Windows 11 but there are intermittent errors in Ubuntu: no backlighting, becomes unresponsive. I am using Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS with Kernel 6.8.0-59-generic.
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This 20-second video screenshot was taken on Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS with KDE Plasma (forgot what version now, and can't check easily): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj1y3JRK8Fs It shows a window ...
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Recently upgraded from 20.04 to 22.04 and firefox lost it's window decorations (that is, there's no title bar at all, no corner handles, I can't move or resize it). I've found a bunch of similar posts ...
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Navigating with ALT-TAB is broken when you get in a tile group. First I like the idea of tile groups, but ounce I swap to a window in a group using alt-tab, if I press alt-tab again, it does not come ...
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When I play War Thunder on my Ubuntu (with Kubuntu desktop environment but it is the same with gnome) and when I Alt Tab to Firefox while using my cursor on firefox my cursor still moves in War ...
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I am looking for the setting on Ubuntu with GNOME that frames the currently active window red, and I want to deactivate it. As a keyboard power user, I found myself often confused about which window ...
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A recent update left my computer(Lenovo ThinkPad T510) somewhat broken. At boot, I see nothing but a black screen and a cursor. If I boot into recovery mode and resume loading it will successfully ...
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Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Two monitors (laptop + external) with different resolutions. Ubuntu dock shown on each monitor. Open application twice, e.g, the terminal, once on each monitor, and then minimize ...
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