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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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config error in Qtile (Tiling Window Manager)

im trying to configure qtile by looking at a reference config from DistroTube(Youtube)'s gitlab : https://gitlab.com/dwt1/dotfiles/-/blob/master/.config/qtile/config.py im getting an error while adding this ##### BAR ##### def…
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Why my tkinter app shows Tk or Toplevel when i stop with mouse over the icon?

I'm experimenting with python and tkinter. I have a main tk window (tk.Tk) and a splash window (tk.Toplevel) I added an icon to both windows using the following line self.iconphoto(False, tk.PhotoImage(file=globali.IMG_PATH +…
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Trying to display a H264 video out of the browser space using mpv

I'm currently working on a QT browser using MPV to display videos. For personnal matters I need to display a video outside of the surface allowed by the browser page. So the video needs to be cut by the bottom of the page. For some reasons the video…
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Draw an icon on a title bar in XLIB

My purpose is to draw an icon into the title bar of a basic wm i'm trying to create. I already googled, and tried different solutions, but so far none is working (maybe just because of my lack of knowledge), i managed to display something from an…
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Get content from open window in Linux

I want to collect data and parse it eventually from an open window in linux. An example- Suppose a terminal window is open. I need to retrieve all the data that appears on that window. After retrieval, I would parse it to get specific commands…
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RHEL w/Tkinter & Python3 - Changing the Activity name from "Tk"

I'm trying to set the Activity (not sure of the proper term, see screenshot) name for a Tkinter app. I'm not a Linux expert, novice, or really even beginner, but the system about dialog lists my test machine as Fedora 30. Window Manager is…
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Gtk - Window which is not decorated cannot be resized

I have a GtkWindow which I set not to be decorated by the window manager. This works fine, but I cannot resize the Window anymore, even though resizing is enabled. I already found out this is due to the missing resize area that the window manager…
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No event received when X11 client sets _NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION

I'm building a taskbar for an X11 desktop and so far I've been successful in detecting new and removed windows and changes to window titles and icons. However, despite setting every event mask I can think of on the client windows, I've been unable…
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Good ways to monitor user "behavior" in Python?

I'm looking for easy APIs to get informations about the user use of his computer in Python. What would be relevant: Keypresses, mouse events [PyKeylogger?] # I know this has been debated in SO already Know information about the processes that are…
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xdotool wont work in i3wm when bound to a key

I have made a script where it uses xdotool to do some keyboard inputs. You can find the script here (The script is called pop_mpv.sh). The script works perfectly when I run it from a terminal, but it does not work properly when I have the script…
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Manipulate window size in linux via compiled code?

I wrote a couple of scripts to maximize a window to half the size of the screen (to make it easy to place windows side-by-side) using xrandr, grep, and wmctrl as follows: #!/bin/bash w=`xrandr 2> /dev/null | grep '*' | grep -Po…
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GTK3 - How to send a window to the background

I am trying to send a window to the background, but SetKeepBelow has no effect on windows. Is there any way to achieve this? I am using golang and gotk3, but I can add additional bindings if needed. Another option would probably be using this:…
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How to check whether any window is open in i3

How could I find out whether any window is opened in i3 or not? Like, check if any workspace contains any window.
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WindowManager X Y not working

I am using Android window-manager to display an overlay image onto the users phone, but it is not setting the ImageView in the correct location, it always defaults to the center of the screen. I know the location is correct cause I have used…
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how to make overlay window touchable

i'm making a feature in my app that display an overlay window with text on the screen, when it appears then i try to touch that window it actually touches behind that window i need to make that window touchable , which params should i use ? here is…
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