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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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Keeping a window on the active OS X desktop

In OS X Mission Control, a user can create multiple desktops. If a system message appears, such as a request for authentication when clicking on a padlock in System Preferences, the message dialog will always be visible when the user switches…
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What is the difference between these winfo commands? (Tcl/Tk)

What is the difference between the winfo height *window* winfo width *window* commands and the winfo screenheight *window* winfo screenwidth *window* commands? Having read the documentation here: Tk Built-In Commands , it seems to me like…
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Android: Using Windowmanager to make the HOME button unwork

I have already finished an Android lock-screen app but my teacher asks me to change it into an app using Windowmanager so that users can not exit the app using HOME button. The idea is that we can make the whole app be a float full-screen window.…
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Android: Navigationdrawer (Slidingmenu) in Windowmanager of a Service

I am coding an app that has to run from a service to enable continuous video streaming in the background. I tried implementing a navigation drawer into it and the sliding menu can even be opened via sliding your finger from the edge of the screen,…
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How to write QPA plugin that acts as a window manager

I'm working on some kind of window manager application in Qt under Windows. My approach would be to have a main application that controls the visibility and geometries of (frameless) main windows of some child processes via ipc. This has the…
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Splitting workspaces in the notion window manager

I have been using the Notion Window Manager (http://notion.sourceforge.net/) for a few weeks. I was wondering if it is possible to create a keybinding that splits a workspace in the same way that META+S and META+K S splits a frame horizontally and…
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Apply changes to Window manager immediately

I am currently trying to write a c# programm that changes the color of the active window in the windows 8 desktop window manager. I focused out the registry entry that contains the specific value and changed it to a value of my choice. What I'm…
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Using windowManager parameters to have keyboard

I am using these parameters to show an image on the screen. (this is running on a service cause of that i am using windowmanager instead of usual way- the image comes and goes continuesly) WindowManager.LayoutParams params = new…
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X11 struts geometry

Can somebody explain (or link to explanation) of how X11 struts are constructed? From the only description that I was able to find here it is not clear to me what the twelve values in _NET_WM_STRUT_PARTIAL property represent. For example, in the…
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copy paste option popup is not appearing

I am extending Service class for performing my task and inflate a layout. But the EditText present in the layout is not showing the copy paste popup after long press over EditText. Here is my code. public class FormService extends Service { …
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Fatal Exception, inflateexception

I'm trying to make a pong like game. I've been following a tutorial from here http://mikeyhogarth.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/how-to-develop-pong-for-android/, but the tutorial had a fixed height and width to display the game. I've been trying to…
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Transparent View overlay "falls off" of Window Manager?

The following working code runs in a BroadcastReceiver that receives the BOOT_COMPLETED broadcast. //Create a transparent, untouchable view and attach it to the system-level Window Manager //We will force this overlay into Landscape…
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fluxbox couldn't connect to XServer - CentOS 6.4

I'm setting up some new VNC servers. I already have this setup working with CentOS 6.3, although I'm not certain that this difference is the real problem. One of the window managers I'm making available is fluxbox, but when I start it, I always get…
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Custom window manager and interaction with applications

I read window managers are responsible for window decorating (title bar, close button, etc.). So if i can handle, when window is created and modify it somehow (create title bar, close button, etc. for it), how is then application of this window…
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How can I disable a windows's resize action in X window system?

I am trying to use xprop to set a window's allowed actions,for example,I want to make a resizeable window become unresizeable by the following command. xprop -id "0x04400015" -format _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS 32a -set _NET_WM_ALLOWED_ACTIONS "…
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