I have Lubuntu. But when i tried to use clean Awesome WM, i thought that can i use awesome WM with GTK themes. I this possible?
I tried to run awesome, but got:
E: awesome: main:463: another window manager is already running
Also, clean Awesome WM works fine without Lubuntu. How to use awesome WM as a Window Manager in Lubuntu?
In some case, you can add --replace to replace the current window manager. LXDE defaults to OpenBox.
Some desktop environment also have settings to replace the window manager (in this case, by AwesomeWM). A quick googling seems to indicate some distribution store this setting in /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/default.
However this is a bit of going in circle around the real issue here. Why run AwesomeWM in LXDE? Their feature set overlap at a rate of almost 100%. If you use lxde only for lxappearance (gtk theme mananger) and PCManFM, note that those 2 applications run just fine from the normal Awesome session. AwesomeWM itself provide the panel, wallpaper and window manager features, which leaves nothing from the original LXDE.
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I have a few windows on my linux machine using the xfce4 desktop enviorment.
I wish to have a grid-like view where i can see only the part of each window im intrested in.
An example for the general vision:
see a script running without the window borders on terminal across the header
see work status of F#H client out of the advenced client view in the middle left
see only the turrents status list of qBittorrent at middle right
have another terminal at footer (again without header/borders)
My best way to describe it shortly is to generate a view from selective parts of windows.
Added a picture for illustration
Is there any way of doing such thing in a practical way? Am i missing out on a great software?
There are several tiling helpers for Xfce.
Perhaps try xpytile , which is a tiling add-on for Xfce. It offers
automatic tiling, manual tiling and can simulaneously resize side-by-side windows (like AeroSnap for MS-Windows).
Is there a way to disable Gnome classic desktop hot corner (upper left corner)? I activate it accidentally far more often than I do intentionally which is quite annoying. I have a Fn+whatever key that will do the same thing, so I don't really need the hot corner.
You should be able to do that throught the gnome-tweak-tool... it should be listed there along with your default extensions...
However if your case is like mine, you won't find the default extension there and will have to install one by yourself, I've installed the one below and the "No topleft hot corner" extension started to show up on my extension list...
https://github.com/HROMANO/nohotcorner/archive/master.zip
Also here's the thread where I've found the extension:
https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=48130
I use Conemu and Cygwin at home and at work, and I was trying to get the keyboard and highlighting to behave the same way in both places, so I imported my home Conemu settings file into my work Conemu, and now I've lost my ability to use Apps+PgDn/PgUp to scroll the backbuffer. Instead, when I press the Apps key, the mintty menu pops up.
How do I get that back?
I finally figured out that the problem is mintty.exe. I think they changed it in Windows 10 so the Apps/Menu key makes the context menu pop up, and there doesn't seem to be any way to disable that. I'm using Windows 8 at work and Windows 10 at home, hence the disparity.
If you just set your task to run bash.exe, everything seem to work fine.
Now that I figured it out, I can see why running mintty.exe in ConEmu doesn't make much sense, since they're kind of competing products, both designed to be better alternatives to cmd.exe.
There are only a couple of differences:
bash.exe has no way to specify an icon, but that easily fixed by putting /icon "C:\cygwin\Cygwin-Terminal.ico" (or whatever your cygwin icon path is) in ConEmu's task parameters.
The color scheme is also different, but appending -new_console:P:"<Standard VGA>" to the task command makes it the same as mintty.exe's (I want ConEmu to run Far Manager with the <Solarized> color scheme).
Goal: To display an application in the middle of the screen on a solid colour background. This means nothing else showing no gnome-desktop nothing apart from the application and the solid colour background.
Currently I'm using X11 for the background xstart -solid Grey which is great however as a test application I'm running firefox which I see has no window decorations ie: max, min title or boarder neither for that matter does xterm. I was wondering if it is possible to show the decorations without installing gnome possibly by installing just the themes eg: gnome-themes which I have done but have been unable to make the connection, or weather just running X isn't going to work without more gnome modules. I'm new to delving into the inner workings of linux as I've never had to deal with it before. I did ask a question previously which led me to xstart and xsetroot and I've been playing around with them for a bit trying to familiarise myself.
I do recognise that it is possible that I have gone about this all wrong, but if we don't try we don't learn.
If anyone knows of any tutorials or documentation that could help or if anyone has any tips I'd be grateful for the pointers.
Cheers
Chris
SOLUTION
Just thought I'd mention that I solved my issue after installing an ubuntu server distro I added xinit via apt-get then added metacity Then I edited the gconf files using gconf-editor then removed the Gnome-panels from /usr/bin However as I may possibly require them in the future I have made a copy of them before I deleted them. Thanks again for the help it was much appreciated.
The window decorations are created/managed by the window manager. If you don't have one running, you won't get window decorations.
Ok... I think I understand what you are asking. Gnome is a "Desktop", and includes with it one of many "Window Managers" called Metacity if I remember correctly. That is the part that adds the title and borders etc. There are many pure window managers(not desktops). A common and popular "Window Manager" is fluxbox although there are many others. Fluxbox does allow you to "undecroate" a window when you launch it. I'm not sure if this is what you are asking. Hopefully it is of some help.
This problem is driving me crazy. Maybe the experts at Stack Overflow can help.
I want to open an application in Xvfb and to have it always positioned at x,y=0,0 (Top left corner).
The application does not take any parameters, allowing it to reposition the opened window itself. Is there a way to set the default window position in a X-server? (Xvfb).
Best regards
Gustaf
I use Xvfb with twm (yum install twm). You need to create a ~/.twmrc file to indicate how windows are displayed.
I just use 'RandomPlacement' but in your case you might want to use 'UsePPosition' (check http://www.xfree86.org/4.4.0/twm.1.html) for more options.
Are you running a window manager? It's up to the window manager to place windows,
and it should default to (0,0) already when no window manager is running.
Is there a way to set the default window position in a X-server? (Xvfb).
It's open source, so yes, you could hack it in. But it's normally the window manager's job, so find a light-weight wm that allows window-placement rules. Some can pattern-match on window name to select rules.