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Questions tagged [window-management]

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How can I set the position that terminal opens at?

I'd like Terminal to open near the bottom of my screen. Is there a way to set the default size and position? I'm using Linux Mint 13, Cinnamon.
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Gnome Shell window snap to quarters of screen

I love the window snap feature of the Gnome 3 shell. However, it only allows you to maximize windows or to snap to the left or right half of the screen. Is there a way to snap to quarters of the screen? Maybe some shell extension I'm unaware of?
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Keyboard shortcut to move window to a side in Gnome

In Windows I can press Windows + left/right/up/down keys to press a window against the upper, right, down, or left side respectively. Is there an equivalent in Ubuntu? Distro: Ubuntu 12.04, using Gnome.
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How to identify window by clicking in Wayland

I'd like to identify which process a window belongs to in Wayland. Is there anything like xprop for X that allows the user to pick a window by clicking and outputs all window details, including PID?
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How to forbid windows from stealing focus in XFce4?

In XFce4, when I launch applications, I don't want them to appear above the windows I am currently using, or to show alert windows above my current work. Rather, I'd like the windows to load in the background and to not steal focus. The exception…
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How to move a window up to the level of its parent window in i3wm?

Suppose I have window w1, w2 open, and sub-window w1-a, w1-b with w1 as their parent window. Is there a way to move w1-a up to its parent window level?
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What does the "interruptible sleep" state indicate?

I had Firefox running on a Parted Magic LiveCD, then (possibly) as a result of a key combination I don't recall, it quickly vanished from screen and Task Bar/Window List. However: ps ax | grep firefox returns the below (and the unneeded grep…
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How to close any window in Awesome WM?

Desktop application developers are free to choose which keyboard shortcuts they want to support. On Windows the convention is pretty strong: Alt-F4 closes most applications Ctrl-F4 closes most major sub-windows Esc dismisses most dialogue boxes.…
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xdotool: How to search for window by title and class with different patterns (similar to AutoHotkey)

xdotool lets you search for windows using its search subcommand. I need to locate a window, that has class 'gvim' and title containing word 'TODO'. How do I do this? What I've tried: You can do xdotool search --name --class, but it would only…
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How to move taskbar to different monitor on Linux Mint?

I am using dual monitors on Linux Mint and I can't figure out how to get the bottom taskbar to appear on my left side monitor. Right now it only appears on the right monitor. How can I move it to the left monitor or extend it so it goes across both…
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Is there a way to simulate a "Close" event on various windows using the terminal?

I answered on Ask Ubuntu Quit all instances of gnome-terminal via a command but as you all can read gnome-terminal didn't seems to have a SIGcall I could use to simulate this "Close" event. So this lead me to ask, is there a way in…
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Opening a programme in a floating window in i3

I want to open a programme in a floating window. I tried exec emacsclient -c ; floating enable, but that made the window that was active before float, not the new window.
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How to customize window tiling zones/grid?

In Cinnamon, pressing super+arrow keys (or other similar shortcut) resizes current window into a tile (snaps to grid). How can I customize this grid? For example I would like to split screen into 3 equal vertical zones so that the window would…
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How can I restore default window size in KVM/QEMU

In KVM/QEMU machine window size by default matches guest OS resolution. But if I resize windows (accidently) how to restore default size?
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Is it possible to have `i3-msg focus ` to not wrap around when there is no window in the given direction

I am using i3 as my window manager, and I would like to avoid wrapping around when pressing $mod+. For example, If I am in the rightmost window on the workspace, and I press $mod+right, I don't want focus to go to the leftmost window, but…
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