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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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Terminal in XLIB Window Manager not receiving key presses from "OnBoard" on screen keyboard

Consider the following minimal window manager found online. It compiles and runs fine. #include #include #include int main() { Display *display; Window window; XEvent event; int s; /* open…
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What should a Window Manager do with a ConfigureRequestEvent?

For my sins (and for fun the learning experience) I am writing a window manager (I know, I know). I'm using python and XCB (python-xpyb). So far I have figured out that I need to use a SubStructureRedirect mask on the root window(s), and I am…
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How to disable favourites from loading when using the Super key

I am not a new Linux user but I am new to Gnome which is the preferred WM at work so I'm trying to get it to work they way I prefer. The primary issue is that I want to have key-bindings of Super+1, Super+2, etc.. to switch between windows. I have…
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Xlib ConfigureRequest with custom configuration not working

I am using python and python3-xlib (which is a pure python implementation of the Xlib interface but basically is very similar to the C Xlib). For educational purposes, I am trying to create a simple window manager which should be able to force…
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LightDM add Window Manager (Openbox)

I'm running my application (GUI) in kiosk mode via LightDM. This works fine, but i'm having a hard time including openbox to it. My application simply has no borders or decorations, although i'm setting openbox as user-session…
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android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException on custom dialog

My application crashes with below error stack on specific android version and device (VIVO with android 5.1 & Oneplus one with Android 7.1) *_ android.view.WindowManager$BadTokenException: at android.view.ViewRootImpl.setView…
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Programming in Enlightenment Window Manager

¿Has anyone programmed in this window manager? ¿How was your experience? Oh, and besides the e17 official tuts & docs, ¿is there any other source for tutorials?
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XMonad: Overview of All Currently Opened Windows

In XMonad is there any way to see an overview of all the currently used workspaces including their current windows at a time? I think it's a very practical piece of software but I have not found any extension that does something like this. Unless…
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Android use grey overlay on screen as dimming, fadeing

I bought myself a android car unit and came at the conclusion that the minimum brightness is still to bright when driving in the night. There is a clever app called screen filter that (i think it works like this) uses a overlay over the screen to…
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i3 wm append_layout command

According to i3 documentation : i3 append layout system append_layout program should be available since i3 4.8 I don't have the append_layout i3 program in my path. sudo find / -name "append_layout" | wc -l 0 my linux version is a Debian Jessie up…
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How to get Window reference (CGWindow, NSWindow or WindowRef) from CGWindowID in Swift?

How to get Window reference (CGWindow, NSWindow or WindowRef) from CGWindowID in Swift on XCode 7.3 Mac Playground? I referenced from Apple's document - Window Manager Reference, and from the sample code SonofGrab, but I didn't find an answer in…
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Make top level window transparent for mouse clicks

I want to be able to redirect mouse clicks to the window below my application. An example: My application is arranged like in the picture below. The red rect is the invisible border of my top level window. No I cant click the close button of the…
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Any reason that zenity wouldn't bring a dialog into focus?

I am using Zenity 3.10.2 and any time I use Zenity, regardless of dialog type, the dialog it brings up has focus. i.e. I can straight away press "Enter" straight away and proceed. (I need this ability for automation) However, there is one exception…
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Export QWidget as a QSystemTrayIcon

I am trying to put "Application Menu" org.kde.plasma.kicker at my tiling window manager which does implement XEmbed protocol of the X11, without starting the KDE system tray. For that, I can call the "Application Menu" plasmoid/applet from within…
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WindowManager addview not working in GcmListenerService

I'm trying to build an app that when receiving GCM message from Google's GCM server, then I can show a notification on the top of the screen like Facebook's app Messenger. My problem is: The code windowManager.addView(chatHead, params); in…
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