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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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X11/Xlib: Window always on top

A window should stay on top of all other windows. Is this somehow possible with plain x11/xlib? Googling for "Always on top" and "x11" / "xlib" didn't return anything useful. I'd avoid toolkits like GTK+, if somehow possible. I'm using Ubuntu with…
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Does minimizing a window on a modern version of Windows still move it to coordinates (-32000, -32000)?

According to this blog entry by Raymond Chen, Windows NT "minimized" windows by moving them to the coordinates (-32000, -32000), and, I got the impression from reading it that this was the case in the early versions of Windows NT (3.x, 4...). In…
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How to hide borders dynamically from windows when not tiled (Awesome WM)?

I'd like to remove the border from any window which is not tiled (no matter where it is maximized or just a single window assigned to a tag) and add borders as soon as it get's tiled, all while using the same layout. I tried this solution (with…
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Where can i find a list of all the window manager protocol atoms?

Where can i find a list of all the window manager protocol atoms? I have these few: WM_DELETE_WINDOW WM_SAVE_YOURSELF WM_TAKE_FOCUS They are commonly used when incepting window manager events in Python's Tkinter in the style…
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How to test X Window Manager

I've tried to write my own (simple, but with few important features) window manager for X Window System. But after writing base (very minimal) I've got problem with testing. I have tried to test on virtual machine, but this way is uncomfortable. So,…
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How to disable the resize cursor

I use QWidget::setFixedSize to avoid my window being resized. Even though it works, the resize-style cursor still appears when passing over the edges. Like this for example:…
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QWidget / QWindow title bar: custom look, native feel (similar to Chrome)

I know how to make a QWidget (in Qt4 or Qt5) / QWindow (since Qt5) borderless, draw a custom title bar and manually implement mouse dragging to move the window on the screen by simply tracking the mouse position with some mouseMoveEvent and updating…
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(Ruby || Python) window manager

I want to make a window manager in either of these languages (Preferably ruby). I honestly have no idea where to start except that I will need some kind of X module to load. So if anyone has a clue it would be great if you could point me in the…
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Find the name of the X window manager

How do I find the name of the running X window window manager from a program? If I start another window manager when one is already running, then an error occurs, so there must be a way for the other window manager to detect the first one. How does…
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Cannot compile xmonad.hs file

I am using xmonad on top of an arch based system. But after upgrading i am not able to compile my xmonad.hs file via $ xmonad --recompile I seem to be getting error on every module of xmonad, even import XMonad doesn't seem to work. If anyone has…
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Discover what window is active on Gnome/Linux/Ubuntu from Python?

Is there any way to get a list of all windows that are open at present and see what window is at the top (i.e. active?) from Python? This is using Gnome on Ubuntu Linux. wnck looks like it might do this, but it's very lacking in documentation.
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Web Window Manager (UI Framework)

I'm interested in putting together a web framework to emulate a desktop-like window manager. If you're asking why; the reason is that I want to create a web application that has the capabilities and look-and-feel of a desktop application, yet be…
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Android: how to add view to WindowManager, and keep it floating at the top of my app all the time?

I need a view to show up at the top of my application, and when it's shown, it can keep showing at the top of all my application's other view(all the fragment and activity). It sounds like a Floating Action Button, but will always show at the top of…
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Awesome wm setting size for the tasklist item

I'm coding a custom vertical wibox that contains my tasklist, I want it to look like this: but instead of being fixed height, the tasklist items just take up all the available space. Here's the result: Here's my code so far: function…
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Name of window manager for Windows

i have a simple question, i search the exact name of the window manager for Windows. For Unix : X Window System Mac : Quartz Windows : ? Thanks you.
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