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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 to toggle the titlebar in AwesomeWM?

I am trying to modify my rc.lua file the following way: when I press Mod4+R, AwesomeWM keybinding for running a command, I want Rofi to appear, blur my wallpaper and hide everything from my screen. I only want the Rofi prompt over a blurred…
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How can I find out or record the X11 top-level window from which a top-level window was opened?

I'm thinking of writing an X11 window manager which does for windows something like what TabKit does for tabs in Firefox (in its default tree view mode). To do this, I'd need to be to able to find out which window a window was opened from. Is there…
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Window not showing while using TYPE_APPLICATION in WindowManager

Window not showing while adding surfaceview to windowmanager. But it showing when I use TYPE_PHONE instead of TYPE_APPLICATION. windowManager = (WindowManager) ctx.getApplicationContext().getSystemService(WINDOW_SERVICE); …
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Does Qt require a preinstalled window manager on Linux?

I'm working on a GUI application with Qt on Linux. The operating system only provides the X Server and the prerequisites to run a Qt application. There is no desktop environment like GNOME, KDE, etc. installed yet. There's no window manager neither.…
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xmonad layout withIM stays the same size

I have a problem with xmonad and the XMonad.Layout.IM module. I have the following configuration for my layout and no matter to what I change the parameter of "withIM", the window stays always the same size. Config: 38 import XMonad.Layout.IM …
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How to OverlayService Fullscreen?

wm = (WindowManager) getSystemService(WINDOW_SERVICE); int type = WindowManager.LayoutParams.TYPE_SYSTEM_ALERT | WindowManager.LayoutParams.TYPE_SYSTEM_OVERLAY; int flags = WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_WATCH_OUTSIDE_TOUCH |…
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Unaesthetic busy/loading animation under LXDE / Openbox

I set up my Raspberry Pi with Raspbian and LXDE as display manager. Now whenever I start an application this animation is shown in the top right corner of the screen. Does anybody know, what triggers this animation and if it can be disabled?
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How to configure accessibility in OpenBox for GUI Testing purpose

I've got a QT application running in a redhat 6.5 server and displayed in a redhat 6.5 server X, with OpenBox as a window manager. I want to automatize GUI tests, so I choose ldtp (maybe not the best choice, I'm open to suggestions). Ldtp works with…
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how to pass object between ViewModels using windowmanager caliburn micro wpf

I have AddEditViewModel and AddEditView associated with it. I want to start dialog window from ViewModel2 using IWindowManager object. The code from ViewModel2 class: windowManager.ShowDialog(new AddEditViewModel(_windowManager,_events),…
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How to remove view from Window Manager?

Based on my requirement I need to show pop over call screen. I used broadcast receiver for getting call state. I'm successfully getting call state and I show pop up on native call screen. I follow this procedure: In receiver on phone state I call a…
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XWindow not listening to its own attributes/ window manager

Problem: I have a java window controlled by XWindows in a Window Manager C++ file on a Linux system. There is a bug somewhere, if you open the HCI roughly between 7-35 times consecutively (and quickly) typically at least one time the window is…
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android TYPE_PRIORITY_PHONE doesn't show over lockscreen

I am trying to show view when there is an incoming phone call. This view should be touchable/draggable, but it shouldn't block touches outside of this view(user should still be able to reject/answer call). This view should also appear when phone is…
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Catching and sending events in python xlib

For my window manager project, I'm grabbing all ButtonPress events(so I can focus the window underneath the mouse). If the window is already focused I would like to just pass the event along to the window. Here's the offending function def…
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Ask window manager to release exclusive full screen mode

I'm working on a game built with SDL 1.2 which uses exclusive full screen mode on Linux. This means it grabs all input from the window manager, so Alt-F4 and Alt-Tab have to be implemented inside the game itself. Alt-F4 is easy. For Alt-Tab, I want…
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How to remove WindowManager view from screen?

I used ((WindowManager) context.getSystemService(Service.WINDOW_SERVICE)).removeView(view); but it didn't work..view is still showing on the screen. so how to remove WindowManager view from screen? i Created it like this public void create() { …
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