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Expression-Blend-3 - Has Anyone Lost a Window? How Can You Get It Back?

Here's what I did: Right-clicked on an item in the 'Objects and Timeline' panel. Selected 'View XAML' Resized the window to a '0' size so that it went off the bottom of the screen. Now, even if I: Select 'Reset Current Workspace'... Or restart…
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How to manipulate a window in Linux

I've been programming in Linux for years but don't have too much knowledge in the perspective of display. Now I'm asked to write a separate process that will monitor which window (probably not the window created by my process) is focused by the user…
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What's the name of the behaviour of the "buddy list" window of pidgin?

I noticed the following feature of the "buddy list" window of pidgin on windows: If you drag the window not far from the top right corner of the desktop, the following things happen: The appearance of the border slightly changes: Before: After:…
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When are qt windows created?

If QWidget is created without a parent, it creates a window. So, when exactly is the window created? Is it when the show() is called? Or when the object is constructed?
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Is there a way to determine if a top level Qt window has been moved?

I am trying to determine when the main window of my application has been moved. The main window is a standard QMainWindow and we've installed an eventFilter on the QApplication to look for moveEvents for the QMainWindow, but none are being…
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How do i open a new terminal in python and control it?

how do I, crossplatform, open a new terminal window and control it? I want to be able to send text to the terminal, and recieve keyboard inputs, without needing to run in console mode, as this program will be running as a pyw and not py. I havent…
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System-wide recognition of scroll events on Mac OSX and setting focus to a different window

I'm registering for global mouse wheel events in my cocoa application. My goal is to have some kind of background application to be able to focus a window of another application when the user scrolls in it's window. If possible with Objective-C and…
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Does Qt provide a way to get notified when the user starts and/or stops moving or resizing a top-level window?

While answering a different StackOverflow question I realized that a 100% correct solution would need to know when the Qt application's window was being dragged or resized by the user's mouse, so that it would refrain from moving or resizing itself…
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Qt - Catch events normally handled by the Window Manager

I'm not sure quite how to phrase the question concisely, so if there is a similar question, please point me in the right direction and close this one. I am currently building a CAD app, the user interacts within the 3D viewports primarily through…
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Terminal doesn't open window on top Mac - Atom

I am currently using Atom to code in Python3 on my Mac and I have a package installed ("atom-python-run") which launches a terminal window with the command "python3 {path}" with 'path' being the current working directory with filename.py included.…
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Roll up / shade floating windows in awesome?

I am trying out awesome at the moment coming from KDE/MATE since many years and I really like it a lot. There's really only one thing that I'm missing from my previous workflows. Occasionally I'm working with applications that have a lot of floating…
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Moving window on the screen

Is there any shortcuts to move/drag the window(box) on the screen when the window is not maximized without changing its dimension? Say I want to drag the vim/emacs editor window to the left side/middle/right side of my screen so it doesn't cover…
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Use Python to resize the active window to half the screen size in Linux?

This question is a follow up to: Manipulate window size in linux via compiled code? Per the title, I want to resize the active window to half the screen size (either on the left or the right of the screen. I can do this with a bash script as follows…
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How to get the title of the current Aquamacs window using applescript

I'm trying to programmatically retrieve the major mode of aquamacs. I had a few ideas: get the menubar items, get the window title and parse it using regexes. I've tried both, and ran into a problem, both the menubar and window arrays are empty,…
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How can I show/hide a window with a hotkey?

I'm looking for a way to show/hide a window with a specific title. One example is when you press win+1, the first window at task bar will show, when you press again, it will be minimized. I checked this page, but the methods they suggested are not…
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