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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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Where do I start if I want to write a 3D wayland compositor(using OpenGL)?

So I would like to create a compositor for wayland which supports 3D effects for windows(something resembling compiz, but on wayland). I already saw this question: Where do I start if I want to write a wayland compositor? but the only answer points…
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Retrieve Ubuntu launcher icon

Is there a way to retrieve application launcher icon. I tried xprop _NET_WM_ICON command but it returns with _NET_WM_ICON: Not found error. But I can see the icon in System Tray(Launcher). How can we retrieve that icon. Any other method ?
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Design Time Support with Event Aggregator AND WIndowManager

I have to create a WPF application with Caliburn.Micro 2.0.2 for my Bachelor exam. In this application three different Views will be shown in a single Shell (Window) and they have to communicate with each other. So I need the Event Aggregator. I…
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openbox won't set the correct window size

What I'm trying to do should be relatively simple. I want to set a display consisting of two (or, optionally, three monitors). Two of them are supposed to display a Chromium browser window and the third one, if present, will display some unrelated…
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Animation of imageView in WindowManager does not work in android 4.xx

Hi I need a floating bubble on top of my activity and I decided to use a service for that. Everything works well except that in Android 4.xx devices the imageView is not being animated. I have added listeners to the animation and the animation is…
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linux x11 window manager - blocking mouse events

Let's assume that a few windows are visible - I need to implement mechanism which will block events for a selected windows, for example when user click a button in window_nr1 and window_nr2 nothing happens but when a user click a button in…
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cwm window manager - extend "exec program" search path with custom directories

I am using cwm on OpenBSD 5.6 and have got my scripts in my ~/bin folder. In my .zshrc the PATH is also exetended with .zshrc: export PATH=$PATH:~/bin If I spawn the "exec program" dialog with M-? , my scripts do not appear in the dialog. I cannot…
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Is there a way to enumerate the open windows on Mac and X11?

Basically, I am looking for something like Win32's EnumChildWindows on Mac and X11, which takes a handle to a window and returns a list of its child windows.
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Fluxbox compiling problems after making a change

I'm trying to make the change here: http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Howto_Make_dblclick_titlebar_maximize I am using the current git version of the fluxbox source. I assume that those instructions are perhaps no longer valid for the current…
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MIUI can't use WindowsManager to addView，how can I solve it?

guys. I'm developing a applock application, when the service listen a locked app, it will use WindowManager to call addView() to add a gesture lock view. However, it doesn't work on MIUI System. And I find the reason is that when the service add a…
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can we control seekbar in window manager?

I want to control my seekbar from window manager. I mean, I want to called my layout from window manager, and i want to control my seekbar from that window manager. From my code, I can't move my seekbar eventhough the layout is appear. Below is my…
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Drag-and-Drop: ImageView wouldn't move all the way acrooss the screen

I have a service that creates a window with ImageView object that has a onDragListener. The idea is to be able to relocate that window across the screen. Problem: For whatever reason the coordinates returned by event.getX() and event.getY() don't…
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Locking my app in same way as MX Player does?

I am currently developing an app (on 4.4.2) which has to prevent the user from exit it. I've done some research and found out that MX Player does exactly what I want my app to do. While viewing a video it lets you click on a lock button which in…
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Get window's input elements

I'm writting an application using C and Xlib and I'd like to know if it's possible to fetch a list of a window's input elements widgets (textboxes, buttons, etc). I'm retrieving the list of windows using the XQueryTree function. What i'd like to…
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OpenGL window manager - multiple process compositing

I'd like to design a simple window manager capable of compositing the outputs from multiple processes. My first idea was to only use different threads for standalone applications so I use only one context and share it between the applications' and…
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