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A Window Manager is a service on most modern OSes which provides the UI for manipulating the location and sizes of windows.

A Window Manager is a service on most modern operating systems which provides the UI for manipulating the location and sizes of windows. Some go further, and provide the ability to open or close applications, and display applets.

For example, since Vista, Microsoft Windows has used Desktop Window Manager to handle the display and composition of windows.

The many desktop environments available for Unix/Linux, such as GNOME (Mutter) and KDE (KWin), all provide window managers, among other software.

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How do I raise window to all workspaces automatically in GNOME2 / metacity?

Let's say I want to run in one workspace sleep 10 && zenity --warning --text 'Wake up!' and then I work on other stuffs in a different workspace. How do I get this zenity window pop up in whichever workspace I'm in instead of the original…
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How do I implement getWindowManager() in Asynctask?

For some reason, I want to get user's phone information in my asynctask function. here is my asynctask code package com.example.myfirstapp; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.BufferedWriter; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import…
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android dialog crashes on rotate

in my app when I have a dialog open and the device rotates, the app crashes. I thought I was already doing everything to handle rotations myself In all my activities I have this enabled in the…
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How to change the way Awesome WM add items to the tasklist?

I would like to have my awesome WM to add items to the tasklist the same way as other window managers. Basically when you open applications in awesome it will put it in the tasklist preceding the previous application. For example, if you open…
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Kid-friendly tiling window manager

I am looking for a tiling window manager that will allow my daughter (4 yrs) to run ucblogo and display the turtle graphics at the same time. A little background: Ubuntu/Debian has a package ucblogo, which runs from the console or, graphically, from…
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Getting `xprop` of child/client window given X ID of frame

I'd like to run the command xprop -id [window_id]. However, assume that for some odd reason, I only have access to the window_id of the frame for the window I'm after(i.e. the window manager's frame for the window as opposed to the window…
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What window manager should I use as example?

I want to implement a simple specialized window manager for presentations (not user-controllable) that supports only the following operations: Moving and resizing of windows Switching desktops Starting applications not on current desktop (in…
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WPF Apps running within WPF Apps

I would like to run a shell window manager kiosk-style WPF app that is full screen and contains in it other WPF apps. Each WPF app is a project of it's own in my VS solution, what are the best practices for loading an instance of the other apps into…
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Android Gallery Image onTouch to fit screen

I am developing application having a resemblance appearance like " Gallery application". When I click on image from the gallery... I want to fit image to whole screen.. I used this code..but it does not work . can you guide me for this ... Here is…
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Reviews for programmable, tiling window manager ion3

I find the concept of the programmable, tiling, keyboard-focuessed window manager ion3 very appealing, but I think it takes some time to customize it to your needs until you can really evaluate this totally different UI-concept. Therefore, I would…
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Can you set the window title for a java application as a command line parameter?

I've started using a Ubuntu desktop in my new workplace and the window manager doesn't manage java applications very well. They are all treated as one application, no icons or names to recognise them by when you alt tab through them. I thought…
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How can I cycle through a specific list of workspaces on XMonad?

I'm a bit familiar with python, but not at all with haskell (although learning a programming language has definitely helped with understanding the XMonad documentation). Used TreeSelect to create a dynamic group of workspaces (and…
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bspwm does not switch focus to my second screen. It works when going there with the mouse

I am trying to have desktops 1-4 on my laptop screen and 5-8 on my second screen. Super 1-4 works fine on my laptop. But when I press Super 5-8, the focus stays on desktop 4, not switching to my 2nd screen. When I move my mouse pointer to the second…
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Move window to workspace and focus that workspace (shiftAndView) on XMonad WM

I have XMonad for a while and I have been working on this for the last couple of days, and still no solution. Let me give you an example of what I'm trying to do: VLC is open, move it to workspace 2 while it's still focused so I don't have to take a…
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is it possible to make a window_type_dock to show in only 1 workspace on i3 window manager

I am struggling to force a dock to show in only 1 workspace and not any other. Im currently using elkowar's eww widget to make a dashboard. the problem with it is it kept following me around, overlapping all the other window. Here is an example, the…
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