Questions tagged [window-manager]
In the X window system, a window manager controls the way your desktop works, including how the windows look and act.
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Bad window stacking in KDE while using Unity3D accross distributions
I'm on KDE Plasma 6.4.5, Qt 6.10.0, KF6 6.18.0. My current distribution is Arch. I'm using X11, not Wayland because of another bug that makes using Wayland very difficult. Sometimes, all of a sudden, ...
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Can't display multiple windows in XFCE
I’m running XFCE on Linux and I’ve run into a strange problem : I can only see one window at a time. If I open several applications (e.g. Firefox, Terminal, VScode,...), they all appear in the top ...
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Is it possible to change screen resolution without a desktop environment or a window manager
I looked up how I can use commands to resize the display, but all of them seem to require a window manager or a desktop environment, for example, xrandr, but it says No display found. I'm assuming ...
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i3 wm is changing my window size when i come back to gnome
I recently installed i3 Window Manager and am still getting used to it. When I switch back to GNOME, my terminal and other applications retain the tiling layout from i3, requiring me to manually ...
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Moving floating windows around with keyboard shortcuts
I'm currently using a Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon 6.2.9 installation that is a couple days old and I want to use some features I had on a previous tiling window manager with XFCE. In particular, I want to ...
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Make GNOME recognize WM_NAME and WM_ICON_NAME
I'm launching Battle.net with https://usebottles.com/, and it creates two windows: one for the launcher itself, and one for the game. Both windows are missing an icon and show "steam_proton" ...
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Is it possible to use Compiz as a bare compositor, aside of another window manager?
On my newer notebook, running Xorg in Suse Tumbleweed, I have spent some time to configure a window manager, customizing the toolbar, the keyboard shortcuts, etc etc, and to add a bit of eye candy I ...
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Kanshi crashes Qtile Wayland
I am currently trying to use kenshi to automatically use my external display’s when connecting to my dock. But doing so either results in Qtile crashing or not recognizing my displays and staying with ...
