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.
Questions tagged [window]
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window too big, can't resize or maximize
I'm running Kate under Gnome. Somehow it was resized to a too-large size for my desktop. So now the Maximize and Resize buttons are unreachable. I'm assuming reinstalling would fix the problem, but if I can fix it without reinstalling that would be…
begtognen
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Disable new windows auto opening in background
Skype contact list, Home folder, etc.
How to open them in foreground?
Alexey Plutakhin
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How to know the pid of active window
How to know the pid of active (focused) window?
I want to write a script in which it is necessary to know whether the user is actively using a program [browsing internet with somthing say firefox] or doing something else [writing text with…
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How can I switch between open applications?
Pressing alt + tab brings up a carousel of all the icons of my open applications, and by hitting tab I can cycle through them. By releasing tab it brings the window of the application I'm currently on to the front of the screen.
But how do I quickly…
Starkers
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Is there a way to start multiple applications at once and arrange their windows?
Let's say I usually have three windowed apps running at the same time:
Chrome
Emacs
Terminal
I like for them to be arranged the same way. I want this to happen on all of my desktops (or whatever the heck they are officially known as). How can I…
allyourcode
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One pixel 'grab' area when resizing windows
I find it far to hard to grab the top edge of windows to resize them. It seems like there is only a 1 pixel range where the mouse cursor changes to the resize icon. Does anyone know if this range can be increased?
The grab area in the bottom right…
Myforwik
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Identify package by window?
I sometimes find small bugs in dialogs or windows. For instance, I found a very minor bug in the sound preference dialog. I thought I'd report it, but it wasn't obvious what package provides the dialog.
Is there a simple tool to do that? I would…
Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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Some windows are too small by default
This is libre office. It's barely visible.
Is this a bug? If not how can I force minimum width and height on all windows?
842Mono
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How do I set a window "always on top"?
No matter which window I'm working on, the one I choose will be always appearing in front of all. Of course, I would have to set its size.
Vitor Abella
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Command equivalent to triggering "always on top"
I'm on Ubuntu 17.10 with Gnome and trying to figure out the command line equivalent to trigger "always on top". Note: as per my understanding in Wayland, wctrl won't work. :(
Long version: I very much prefer leveraging MPV for most of my online…
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Windows Minimised to just the top-bar
I am fairly click-happy and as such, I have no-idea how I did it...
This is Firefox, and my only option is seemingly to close the window/launch a new one.
Can anybody help?
Dan Hanly
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How to move a window if titlebar is overlapped by Ubuntu menu
Somehow the title-bar of chrome was overlapped by Ubuntu menu-bar like attached image.
In this case how to move this chrome window?
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Prevent window from closing
Often I'll open a program from terminal (gedit, or some software I'm working on, etc.) then press Alt+F4 to close the program... then press it again closing the terminal even though I'm not done with it.
Is there a way I can 'pin' a window so as to…
Ava
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How can I move window titles to the center of the title bar in 12.10?
By default the window titles are on the left side of the title bar. Is there a way to center the titles?
Brian
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Reseting window position and size to default values
I somehow managed to change the size of the gedit window. Every time I open gedit, it is in the new size. I wonder if there is a way to return gedit to its default size, or whether anyone knows what the default size is. My screen res is 1920x1080.
