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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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xmonad vertical resize tile/window

I have a few vertically stacked tiles on the left, and some on the right. I can easily horizontally resize the master pane (with mod + l and mod + h), but I'd like to vertically resize some windows (including non-master) in this setup. How do I do…
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Obtaining List of all Xorg Displays

I would like to know how I can obtain a list of all Xorg displays on my system, along with a list of screens associated with each display. I spent some time looking through the Xlib documentation, but was not able to find a function that does what I…
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Python 3 Tkinter Borderless fullscreen application

I have been having a problem whilst creating a Python 3 tkinter application. I am currently developing using a Mac OSX system, but I normally use a Windows OS system. I would like the application to occupy the entire screen without the Window…
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Can I get a proper tiling window manager in KDE

I've been a bit conflicted about switching over to a tiling window manager. I made the switch a while ago and I really like it for some things but for other things I don't. So I ended up switching back to my trusty KDE. However, when switching…
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Remove border from fullscreen floating windows only (XMonad configuration)

I would like to remove borders (only) from floating windows covering the full screen (like mplayer), and use a different border color (normalBorderColor) when there is only one window in a workspace. Currently, I am using smartBorders from…
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How do I use getWindowManager() by another java file

I want to use getWindowManager() in my MainActivity, but I don't want to write this method directly in it. Here is my MainActivity code public class MainActivity extends Activity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { …
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Vim-like window manager

In my daily work I use a lot vim as my editor and the tiling window manager awesome. In my opinion both are great tools. What I don't like about awesome (and multiple other tiling window managers) are the unpleasant key-combinations like WIN+ANY…
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How to change focus between two screens (2 monitors) with keyboard (shortcut) Gnome 3

I have question how to change focus between two screens on Gnome. I am using Fedora 25 and I can move window to other screen by using mod + shift + right or mod + shift + left but focus (cursor) stays on first screen. I can do it by moving mouse to…
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Xmonad: when floating a window, move or resize it

I prefer to use the keyboard to float or sink windows. Unfortunately, when floated, windows aren't moved or resized, so there is little visual indication that they aren't still tiled. Ideally, upon shifting to the float layer, I'd have them move…
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Animate view added on WindowManager

I have a view (customView) added to the WindowManager. WindowManager mWm = (WindowManager)activity.getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE); WindowManager.LayoutParams(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, 0,…
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Linux: list all available window managers

How do I get a list of all available windows managers on a linux system (Of course this would mostly not be needed but - I don't have root permissions). Very difficult to search on Google as all results returned are for "list of window managers…
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Lightweight X window manager/environment

My machine is seriously underpowered, and I think I need to start conserving every spare cycle. I know that my Gnome environment seems to underperform compared to my coworkers' KDE setups. But if I'm going to make that big of a switch, I might as…
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What is the name of "Fn" key for Awesome wm?

For example: awful.key({"Shift", }, "Left", volwidget.down) How to find out what to write instead of "Shift" to use "Fn" key?
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Windowmanager with Animation

First of all thanks everyone who tries to reply this topic. I have an activity and I wanted to show a sort of menu at the top of the screen and I used windowmanager to handle this. it was about UI issues I encountered why I choise windowmanager to…
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What should I use in place of getWidth() and getHeight() to know when width is greater and when height is greater

import android.app.Fragment; import android.app.FragmentManager; import android.app.FragmentTransaction; import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.Display; import…
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