A window manager takes care of the placement and appearance of windows in a GUI-driven operating system. Sometimes, the term also refers to plugins that extend this basic functionality.
Questions tagged [window-manager]
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How to move windows that open up offscreen?
I have a dual monitor setup, and I recently played around with the positioning settings, and some of my single window applications do the favour of preserving where they were last closed, and opening in the same position later. Unfortunately, that…
Matthew Scharley
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Keyboard shortcut to unhide or unminimize a window in OS X
I know how to Hide (Cmd+H) or Minimize (Cmd+M) a focused window in OS X, but I can't find a keyboard shortcut or even a menu item to restore, unhide, unminimize, or otherwise show a window that I've hidden or minimized.
Anyone have a suggestion?
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What keyboard shortcuts move, resize, and maximize windows under Mac OS X?
I just checked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts but the following "Window management" entries are blank for Mac OS X:
Move the focused window
Resize the focused window
Maximize the focused window
Are there really no built…
Philip Durbin
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What Tiling Window Manager for Windows do you recommend?
What is the best tiling window manager for Windows?
I'm looking for something like awesome.
It would be nice if it removes the title bar and has "comfortable" shortcut keys (for me that's vi keys, but feel free to use your own reference). Open…
voyager
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Make any windowed application 'Always On Top' without keyboard shortcut?
I've checked the previous question here, but unfortunately:
DeskPin mostly doesn't work since Windows 8, and it still doesn't work in Windows 10
PowerMenu hasn't been updated since 2002, and does not seem to work in Windows 10
AutoHotKey and…
Nur
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How to disable sticky corners in Windows 8?
I have 2 monitors and in Windows 7 I used to just mouse-flick maximized windows from one monitor to the other.
With Windows 8 however (charms disabled), my mouse hangs in the corners while doing this. This is because as described at the end of this…
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How can I view the WMClass attribute of a window in Xorg (linux)?
I am trying to find a workaround for incorrect grouping of windows in Docky, and I believe the problem lies with the WMClass attribute that is set for each window. However, I do not know how to view this attribute for open windows. Is there any way…
Ryan C. Thompson
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Make window always on top?
Some applications do not have the functionality like Task Manager's "Always on top" feature.
Is there a way around this?
Adam
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Windows utility to save/restore window size & position history?
Is there a Windows utility that keeps a record of the size and position of all active windows for later retrieval? For example, if I have my text editor and web browser open side-by-side, and then open Outlook full screen, I'd like a keyboard…
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Juggling between 2 Chrome windows in Mac OS X
I open a lot of separate windows of Chrome on my Mac. However, juggling between two separate windows of Chrome doesn't work with Command+tab. When I press command+tab, only one instance of Chrome can be seen although there are many others in the…
Tina
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KDE - move app window between monitors via keyboard
I'm looking for a utility that moves app windows between multiple monitors in KDE.
Jarek
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Why use a tiling window manager?
I've been hearing a lot about tiling window managers lately. People seem to love them, swear by them, even wonder why everyone doesn't use them. But after searching for a little bit, I couldn't find anyone explaining why they make any sense at…
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Windows 11 desktop switching is slow since latest update
Since a recent Windows Update (2023-09 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5030310) probably?), switching desktops is much slower.
I normally use Win+Tab, but the same slowness exists if I use the Desktops…
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How do I quickly position two windows side by side?
Sometimes you need to see two windows side by side, e.g. when following instructions or when working on a translation. How do I quickly arrange two windows like that?
edit: interested in answers for all platforms and window managers
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What exactly does the little green "+" button do in Mac OS X?
OK, I must admit that I am from the Windows world and started using Leopard not for long.
One really annoying thing when using my shiny new OS is that I can't predict what exact behavior it brings when I hit that little green "+" button on any open…
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