Questions relating to the behaviour of application windows, this is a very generic tag and you should consider also adding tags specific to your question.
Questions tagged [window]
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How to open a file manager of the current directory in the terminal?
When I work in terminal, sometimes I want to open the current directory in a GUI file manager.
And then to click the items in the window to run the application. How can I do this?
user8260
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Keyboard shortcut to move windows between monitors?
I remember there used to be a setting under Compiz that set a keyboard shortcut for moving applications between physical (but combined as a single xscreen) screens, similar to moving between logical screens, like Ctrl-Alt-Shift-← / → / ↑ / ↓.
Any…
Andrew Bolster
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Can't close Authentication Required window after login
I am using Ubuntu 20.04(Gnome3.36) and need help with this:
The Authentication Required window is stuck right after logging in and I can't close it. I tried using xkill to close the window but it didn't close, I think xkill doesn't recognize the…
Mandi
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How to bring back minimize and maximize buttons in Gnome 3
I have recently installed Ubuntu Gnome which has the latest version of Gnome 3 running on it, and I have noticed that on windows there are no minimize buttons, and no maximize buttons, although I can see that you do get the options if you do a…
user364819
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How do I easily switch between windows rather than applications in GNOME Shell?
Currently if I hold ALT + TAB and then while still holding down ALT I press TAB I am able to go between applications in a little view and then when I release all the keys that application and all its windows come to the front.
And this is very…
user364819
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How can I disable alt+click window dragging?
In Ubuntu 14.04, when you hold Alt and click a window, you can drag it around. As I understand, you used to be able to disable it through gconf, but Unity doesn't read settings from here any more (hence not being able to change where the window…
ruscur
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Switching between windows with scroll wheel on Ubuntu Dock
I would like to switch between windows using the scroll wheel of the mouse over each app icon in Ubuntu dock, as we could do in Unity, but apparently this doesn't work in Ubuntu 17.10.
Is there a way to enable it?
Related: How do I enable…
user246185
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How can I snap a window in a corner with 18.04?
Super + left/right snaps windows to fit half the screen.
I'd like to be able to snap four windows in all corners.
CompizConfig Settings Manager doesn't seem to be an option since 18.04 uses the GNOME desktop.
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How do I control window placement in KDE with keyboard?
Is it possible in KDE to set up keyboard shortcuts similar to what Unity uses for window placement - i.e. Alt - Ctrl - Numpad 6 to make a window occupy the left half of the screen etc.?
Sergey
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How to move windows around and between monitors, using keyboard short cuts?
On MS Windows we can use Super + Arrow to move a window to the right and the left of the screen, maximize, minimize and even move it to another screen. Is there a way to configure this feature on Gnome?
Jader Dias
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Remove title-bar of all maximized windows in GNOME 3
(Ubuntu 13.04 with GNOME Shell, upgraded, GNOME version 3.8)
Recently, I upgraded Ubuntu to 13.04. the default desktop is gnome-shell.
Except Nautilus, other software border doesn't disappear when I make them to be maximized. I checked the problem…
mini
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Is it possible to have four equally sized windows on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?
It is common to have two equally separated windows by either dragging each window to one side of the screen or Ctrl+Super+←/→, but I want to divide my screen into four quarters.
I have encounterd many situations in which I had to switch windows…
tet
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How to start terminal in full screen?
When I open a terminal using CTRL+ALT+T in Unity, I would like this window to be automatically maximized, rather than to have to additionally hit ALT+SPACE and the 'X' key to make the window that contains it maximized.
If my memory serves me right,…
Vern
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Top bar for all monitors (Ubuntu with GNOME Shell)
I just installed Ubuntu 18.04. Since the top bar is only on the primary monitor, I can't use the mouse to grab and move my Chrome window (the top of the screen looks like below). Trying to do so results in grabbing a single tab and opening it in a…
Bananach
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How can I print-screen just one window and not my entire desktop?
I could swear I've always been able to do Alt+Print Screen to get 'just that window' but right now I am getting my entire desktop.
Any idea why this would be or what I can do to get my ability to do small window screen shots?
I've tried a lot of…
Michael Durrant
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