Questions tagged [window]
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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How to open a file manager of the current directory in the terminal?
When I work in terminal, sometimes I want to open the current directory in a GUI file manager.
And then to click the items in the window to run the application. How can I do this?
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Keyboard shortcut to move windows between monitors?
I remember there used to be a setting under Compiz that set a keyboard shortcut for moving applications between physical (but combined as a single xscreen) screens, similar to moving between logical ...
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Can't close Authentication Required window after login
I am using Ubuntu 20.04(Gnome3.36) and need help with this:
The Authentication Required window is stuck right after logging in and I can't close it. I tried using xkill to close the window but it ...
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How to bring back minimize and maximize buttons in Gnome 3
I have recently installed Ubuntu Gnome which has the latest version of Gnome 3 running on it, and I have noticed that on windows there are no minimize buttons, and no maximize buttons, although I can ...
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How do I easily switch between windows rather than applications in GNOME Shell?
Currently if I hold ALT + TAB and then while still holding down ALT I press TAB I am able to go between applications in a little view and then when I release all the keys that application and all its ...
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How can I disable alt+click window dragging?
In Ubuntu 14.04, when you hold Alt and click a window, you can drag it around. As I understand, you used to be able to disable it through gconf, but Unity doesn't read settings from here any more (...
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How can I snap a window in a corner with 18.04?
Super + left/right snaps windows to fit half the screen.
I'd like to be able to snap four windows in all corners.
CompizConfig Settings Manager doesn't seem to be an option since 18.04 uses the GNOME ...
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Switching between windows with scroll wheel on Ubuntu Dock
I would like to switch between windows using the scroll wheel of the mouse over each app icon in Ubuntu dock, as we could do in Unity, but apparently this doesn't work in Ubuntu 17.10.
Is there a way ...
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How do I control window placement in KDE with keyboard?
Is it possible in KDE to set up keyboard shortcuts similar to what Unity uses for window placement - i.e. Alt - Ctrl - Numpad 6 to make a window occupy the left half of the screen etc.?
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How to move windows around and between monitors, using keyboard short cuts?
On MS Windows we can use Super + Arrow to move a window to the right and the left of the screen, maximize, minimize and even move it to another screen. Is there a way to configure this feature on ...
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Remove title-bar of all maximized windows in GNOME 3
(Ubuntu 13.04 with GNOME Shell, upgraded, GNOME version 3.8)
Recently, I upgraded Ubuntu to 13.04. the default desktop is gnome-shell.
Except Nautilus, other software border doesn't disappear when I ...
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How to start terminal in full screen?
When I open a terminal using CTRL+ALT+T in Unity, I would like this window to be automatically maximized, rather than to have to additionally hit ALT+SPACE and the 'X' key to make the window that ...
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Is it possible to have four equally sized windows on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?
It is common to have two equally separated windows by either dragging each window to one side of the screen or Ctrl+Super+←/→, but I want to divide my screen into four quarters.
I have encounterd ...
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Top bar for all monitors (Ubuntu with GNOME Shell)
I just installed Ubuntu 18.04. Since the top bar is only on the primary monitor, I can't use the mouse to grab and move my Chrome window (the top of the screen looks like below). Trying to do so ...
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Send or Move a window from one monitor to another with a shortcut key under Ubuntu 12.04 and nvidia 8600 GT without proprietary nvidia drivers
I would like to know how to send or move a window from one monitor to another with a shortcut key under Ubuntu 12.04 and nvidia 8600 GT without proprietary nvidia drivers.
Now, I know I can configure ...
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How can I print-screen just one window and not my entire desktop?
I could swear I've always been able to do Alt+Print Screen to get 'just that window' but right now I am getting my entire desktop.
Any idea why this would be or what I can do to get my ability to do ...
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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 ...
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Open application in specific workspace
I would like to have some applications always appear in a specific workspace. For example: I would like my mp3 player on the bottom left workspace, and terminal application on the bottom right one;
I ...
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Open windows in center of screen
I'd like to have all of my windows open in the center of my screen instead of the top left corner. Is this possible? If so, where do I configure this?
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How do I set focus follows mouse in Ubuntu 17.10 and later with GNOME 3?
I found multiple answers on askUbuntu about this topic. But none of them suites to Ubuntu 17.10.
So I need to ask again:
How do I set focus follows mouse in Ubuntu 17.10?
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How can I make my windows transparent by doing Alt+Mouse Scroll?
Pressing and holding Alt + scrolling with the mouse wheel used to give me a transparent window, is there any way I can get that or something similar in Ubuntu 12.04?
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How to enable/add window borders in 17.10 & 18.04?
I have multiple terminal windows open with a black background and the black shadow on the black background is completely lost when they overlap. This is a problem for any windows with a black ...
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How to close, minimize, and maximize a specified window from Terminal?
I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18 and I am wondering if there is a way from Terminal to close, minimize, unminimize, maximize, and unmaximize specified windows?
Note - I've looked at ...
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How do I add a border around windows but keep the current theme?
I seem to live my life in the terminal - many terminals in-fact.
I also love the Ambiance theme - but the new borderless windows does not provide the visual differentiation I'm used to (the same ...
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Can Snap-Windows be set up for 4 windows instead of just 2?
The title might need some adjusting but what I am trying to say is that, when one drags a window to the left or right side of the screen, it resizes to fill that half of the screen. So if I drag 2 ...
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How to slim down Ubuntu GNOME title bar fatness?
Previously the title bars for windows were much thinner than they are now on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04.1 with GNOME 3.20. Why is this and how can I change this? I liked the slim look I got with the numix-gtk-...
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How to set a specific window size and placement for all windows that open to default
I want my windows to be a specific size (not full screen) and to be in the middle of the screen by default. When I close the application and re-open it, it will be the dimensions I want it to be by ...
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Center a window via command line
Is there a way to either place a window in the center of the screen after it is opened, or cause it to open in the center of the screen?
This needs to be done using command line.
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How can I detach a tab from my main chrome window (into a new window)?
I want to be able to move the current tab from the window (with other tabs) to a new window, in the foreground, keeping all other tabs open. I'm using Google Chrome, always up to date, on Ubuntu 14.04....
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How do I disable the window resizing when accidentally touching one of the screen edges in GNOME 3?
In Ubuntu 18.04, when moving the windows there is a resize effect that occurs when accidentally touching one of the screen edges. This control was available in CCSM and Ubuntu Tweak in previous ...
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Easy way to get process information from a window
On Windows, I can use Process Explorer and drag its crosshairs to a window, then Process Explorer highlights the associated process.
On Ubuntu, I didn't find such a function in System Monitor. What's ...
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How do I tell a start up program to start minimized?
Here is a quesion that has been bugging me. You know how you can set up a program to run on start up right? Well, how can i tell it to start minimized, like you would do in windows?
TeamViewer ...
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How to make Chrome browser "Save as" dialog to be on focus when opening under Ubuntu 21.04?
I use Ubuntu 21.04 and bumped exactly in the issue that seem to be solved long ago... under 14.04 version. But now it's back. I use Chrome 94.0.4606.61（Official Build）and when open "Save as...&...
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Focus existing terminal with `Ctrl-Alt-T` shortcut
I tend to use the terminal a lot,
So I wondering if there is a way I can make Ctrl+Alt+T focus the existing terminal if there is one, otherwise create a new terminal?
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Get Window size in shell
I would like to get the size of the current window from a shell script...
Really not much else to say... I would prefer to use wmctrl.
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Resize four windows to occupy the screen without overlap on Ubuntu 18.04
In ubuntu 16.04, I used Ctrl+Alt+[1-9] (on the num-keypad) to resize a window to take either the top-left, top-right, bottom-left or bottom-right corner.
In ubuntu 18.04, in Settings -> Devices -> ...
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How do I get Aero Snap in Unity 2D?
I really miss the "Aero Snap" window snapping feature present in Unity 3D. Is there any way I can get it, or an alternative to it, in Unity 2D?
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Colored borders around windows after update [duplicate]
After some gorgeous updates I witness this:
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Window title-bars missing occasionally in Unity
window (title and icon) sometimes doesn't appear. As a solution to this, I have to logout and login again. Is there something wrong with my system? How to make sure that this doesn't happen again?
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How can I get a list of all open windows in the command line?
How can I produce a list of all open windows, including dialog boxes and duplicates, from the command line?
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How can I make a window display 1/4 of screen in a corner with combo keys?
In Windows, if I press win+left, the current window will be moved to the left side of the screen, taking up 1/2 of the screen; if I further press win+up, the window will be moved to the top-left ...
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How to restore file copy / transfer status window?
I'm working on ubuntu 11.10 GNOME Classic.
I copying file(~40GB) to External HD. while file copy in progress I mistakenly minimized the status window. After that I cant reopen that status window. b'z ...
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How I can create a shortcut to maximize/minimize windows in Lubuntu?
In lubuntu-rc.xml Lubuntu doesn't have a hotkey to maximize the current window.
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How do I handle windows that are too tall?
Sometimes, I open an application and it opens a window that is too tall for my display. It also doesn't let me resize the window to make it less tall, and it doesn't have a maximize button. In Ubuntu (...
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How to set borders around windows in 14.04?
Can someone advise me of how to add borders (wide borders) to Windows in Ubuntu version 14.04. In the past I have used "gnome-tweak-tool". However it doesn't work with version 14.04.
All my windows ...
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How do I keep a window open in front of other windows?
Whenever you have multiple windows open, is there a way to keep one window on top, or at the front of the others?
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A tool to get window dimensions
I need a tool to get the width and height of an arbitrary window.
Ideally, that tool would deduct the size of the Ubuntu's menu bar.
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How to automatically bring an activated window to the foreground? [duplicate]
When I have a file browser and an image viewer opened and I double click a photo, the image viewer doesn't jump to the foreground, its icon just shakes a bit and acquires a glow around it, and I have ...
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Can I act on the event that a window opens without polling?
I am trying to find a way to detect the event of a window (any window) being opened in Ubuntu 16.04
I would like to be able to detect the "window open" event and check if the opened window was my ...
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Difference between alt+tab and alt+escape
On my GNOME + Ubuntu system, both Alt+Enter and Alt+Escape+ switch between windows.
What exactly is the difference, if any, between them?
