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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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VideoView in WindowManager not updating

I'm trying to play a video with VideoView in WindowManager. I'm using the StandOutLibrary for this. I've been pretty successful so far except a couple of things. MediaController obviously does not work in this case since it needs an activity. So I…
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How do I set a Windows application to be always below other windows?

I would like to be able to set any window (for example Google Chrome) to be always below all other windows and prevent it to come to the top when activated. I found this on stackoverflow. What I am looking for is nearly the same, but for compiled…
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Getting trackpad to work with larswm in Debian Wheezy

I have probably a rather strange taste regarding window managers but the best one I have found so far is larswm. Although it is available in Debian Wheezy, making it useable involves a bit of system configuration. Most importantly trackpad support…
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Get py3status/i3status to allow clicks

I have the right code/configuration or so it seems ~/.i3/py3status_screen/i3bar_click_events.py self.actions = { "wireless eth1": { 1: [external_command, 'nm-connection-editor'], }, } /etc/i3status.conf wireless eth1 { format_up…
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Building a 3D window manager for Linux

I'm looking to learn about Linux window managers and build my own. I have two requirements which I would like to employ: 3D support and good compatibility/performance with existing applications. Are there any window managers that meet these criteria…
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How to know a floating QWidget position when it is shown

I'm trying to move a floating QWidget (Qt::window flag ), in a position depending of it's initial position, wich is determined by the window manager. I can't find a clean way to do it. The first move event is always at position 0,0; and during show…
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Is it possible to theme GUI applications with custom Python window manager?

I'm trying to create a simple custom window manager in Python using xlib (based on Whimsy and PLWM). Is it possible to skin the default look of GUI applications, e.g. the default scroll bars or buttons, using just xlib? Or does this need to be done…
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WindowManager only shows background

I have RelativeLayout, which I want to show in Window. I do this such way: static WindowManager wManager; WindowManager.LayoutParams params = new WindowManager.LayoutParams(android.view.WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,…
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Skills and knowledge necessary to write a WM for the X.Org platform in Clojure/Java

I'm an Arch Linux user and as such I've tried almost all of the DEs and WMs available and none really satisfy me. None really click for me. So I decided to write my own, since I think that's the most sensible solution to this. Looking at the…
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Android: how to display multiple activities at the same time

I'm working on a custom Android ROM that must allow multiple activities to be displayed at the same time on the screen. Something similar to what the Samsung multiwindow does. This case is a bit different though since I have to show, let's say, 5…
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Android track all gestures / touchs even the app running in background

i wrote this code and it works fine, for testing it creates an overlay view and listen to the touches, so far so good, but how can bring this to the background and still listen to the touch listener. the idea is, that i want to track all gestures a…
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Why do a lot of window managers not support object orientation?

Note: I did a brief search that turned up with few results, the only really relevant result being this one, so I don't think this has been fully asked before. I've been looking into OS development a lot lately, and I've found that most, if not all,…
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Know which WM is used from a shell

(On a Linux, for a shell running in a terminal emulator in a graphical server,) I'm interested in knowing how to determine in which Window manager the shell is running. Thanks (I want that for my .bashrc)
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Run application inside pygame

I'm trying to write a Pygame window manager. I've written a lot of things in pygame before so I can make the program, but I realized I have no idea how to run an application, inside that pygame application. I want to make something similar to gnome…
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Tizen:Where can we find the implementation code for Tizen::Ui::SystemUtil::GenerateKeyEvent?

I would like to know how the key event is read and dispatched from the kernel to the Tizen OS. Haven't found any informative document on the same. While surfing through Tizen wiki I came across Tizen::Ui::SystemUtil::GenerateKeyEvent function which…
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