Window management is the placement of application windows.
Window management is the placement of application windows.
Questions tagged [window-management]
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Find out the application under the mouse
It often happens to me, that an application pops up a question and I wonder to which exact application this window belongs, because if I look in the Launcher there is no application that currently has focus (no white triangle on the right side of…
rubo77
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How to start an application with bottom most property?
I want to start an application with bottom-most property. That means that the window will remain always in the bottom of the other windows.
Is this possible? I think that there must be an application that does such a thing, but I have not idea how…
Ionică Bizău
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What do I need to be able to "dock/tile" windows side by side
I installed Ubuntu 11.04 (Command Line System via Alternate CD) then packages I need including ubuntu-desktop --no-install-recommends. I find that I can't tile windows side by side by dragging a window to the side anymore. I guess I'm missing a…
Jiew Meng
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Program to Hide/show Given window with hotkey?
I'm fairly sure this program exists, but I don't remember what it was called.
There are a few drop-down terminal programs (guake, yakuke, tilde), and I've been a fan of guake for a while. However, since I discovered GNU Screen I've been more…
Wayne Werner
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Ubuntu 13.10 freezing when dragging window to expand full size from half screen?
Lately I've found a greater need to have one window/program on the left half and another on the right, however when dragging to expand one window full screen it often results in a crash where the mouse moves (stuck on the hand symbol), but is…
ayamayam
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Resize an installation window
I am using a virtual machine to use Ubuntu to download a program. However, the default installation window of the program is too big, the Next button is off the screen.
I can only make the window bigger but not smaller. I don't know what to do…
Annie Chen
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Resize/Move edge too narrow on windows
Possible Duplicate:
How do I increase the resize margin on windows?
When hovering near the edge of a window you get an option to resize them.
However that edge is too narrow when I'm using trackpoint or touchpad, making it difficult to hit the…
Acebone
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How do I group/un-group parent/child windows?
I was rummaging around in gconf-editor yesterday, and I noticed a setting to Group or Un-group a set of windows... (but I forget the exact Key-name)
This setting was something which looked like a swtich to the default behavioural difference…
Peter.O
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Custom window grid in 12.04
I'm using classic gnome in 12.04. Is there some way to have a custom grid for resizing windows? CompizConfig allows me to configure the "grid" feature, but it only supports resizing to half the screen. Is there some way that I can set a custom size…
Kalle Elmér
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