Questions tagged [window-management]
Window management is the placement of application windows.
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How to remove an application from window list of panel in Mate?
To be more clear. When I type Alt+Tab I don't want my application in the list of windows.
I'm using MATE 1.26.2
Ubuntu 24.04.2
Is there a way to hide an application using Linux command line?
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How can I enable a right click options menu for my window manager?
I'm on Lubuntu 24.04LTS and recently applied updates and noticed my window behavior has changed: Before, I could send windows to the bottom with a middle click and if I right clicked on the top of ...
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Rofi Task Switcher Not Selecting Last Focused Window by Default - How to Fix and a Feature Request
I'm using Rofi as my task switcher in Ubuntu. When I open it (typically by typing rofi), it shows a list of all open windows. However, by default, it selects the currently active window, which is not ...
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With regard to desktop (skype) files, has the way wm-class changed starting with 24.04 (or at least after 22.04)?
I am having trouble getting an installation of Skype to handle the incons in the DASH correctly. Currently (24.04) it will always show a gear icon for the skype executable even if its correct icon is ...
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Automatically maximizing Mate-Terminal when launched
I'm using Ubuntu-Mate 24.04. I am severely visually impaired, and cannot use a mouse. I'm strictly using the Orca screen reader, so keep that in mind that telling me to point and click on things is ...
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Strange behaviour of the shortcut Super + Left and Right arrows with 24.04
In Ubuntu 22.04 I used Super+Left and Super+Right to resize a window to half of the display and to move it to the left or the right.
With Ubuntu 24.04 (both on a machine upgraded from 22.04 and on a ...
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How to restore a single window in KDE after show desktop was enabled?
I am using KDE Plasma in Kubuntu 24.04.
I have enabled hot corner to show the desktop, which minimizes all the running apps.
After I click on an app at this point, this maximizes all the other apps.
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24.04 Issue clicking window focuses on window behind/underneath
This is my exact problem: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/3404
Since my installation of Gnome 46 a couple days ago or so I have been noticing that for some programs windows are visible ...
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Active screen edges cannot be disabled on Ubuntu 24.04
I've just installed Ubuntu 24.04 on my desktop (was running Ubunto 22.04 beforehand) and I'd like to disable the Active Screen Edges option (the one that resizes the windows by dragging them against ...
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Keyboard shortcut to resize window to full-screen (but not over unity dock)
Is there a keyboard shortcut, or a way of defining a keyboard shortcut, that'll resize current window to take up whole screen except the unity dock?
(yes, I know I can make the unity dock stay always-...
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What do "Tile Groups" do?
Ubuntu 23.10 ships with a GNOME Shell extension named Tiling Assistant. It can be installed with this command:
sudo apt install gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-tiling-assistant
It adds these settings to ...
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Gnome 45 / Ubuntu 23.10 focusing windows I didn't click
Just upgraded to Ubuntu 23.10 / Gnome 45. It appears that now when I click on an unfocused window that I have snapped to one side of the screen, it automatically focuses another window that is open, ...
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Where is the config file for setting the windows size in Ubuntu Desktop
I want to set the windows size in bash script but I don't know which command is used to set the windows size.
When open the File Browser in Ubuntu Desktop, and then change the Windows size of the File ...
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Is there a theme with a short or transparent title bar?
Is there any theme, under any ubuntu desktop or window manager,
that has the feature illustrated in the image below, where the title bar doesn't occupy the whole width, but is instead as short as the ...
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Is it possible to put active window in background?
A feature that was useful to me was the ability to have the active window in background.
For instance, you may want to have a small window in foreground while typing on libreoffice in full screen.
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