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Is there a way to store the current desktop layout?

What I want to be able to save the current positions of my applications, so when I'm going to open the same ones and run something they will rearrange as they were. For example if I'm going to open a sublime and three terminal windows I would like…
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A tool to get window dimensions

I need a tool to get the width and height of an arbitrary window. Ideally, that tool would deduct the size of the Ubuntu's menu bar.
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How to share two keyboard on the same laptop, french iso layout and usa ansi layout keyboard with usb?

I recently bought a "noppoo choc mini" with this specific ANSI US-INTERNATIONAL pc84 layout This specific keyboard only has 84 keys, a 60% (compact tenkeyless) reduced layout. My problem is simple, there is no keyboard layout into Ubuntu 12.04 which…
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How do I change my keyboard layout while using xmonad?

So I have an IBM Thinkpad X31, running natty and xmonad as the window manager. The keyboard is Italian. I wish to use an American English keyboard mapping, all the time. How do I do this?
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Can't add more than four keyboard layouts

I can't add more than 4 keyboard layouts on my ubuntu. It just won't let me add more. And I in need of at least 4 more. Anyone else encountered this problem and can give me some advice? Thanks in advance :)
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Problem with keyboard after reinstall 'ubuntu-desktop'?

Before I couldn't login, it was showing: failed to start session After I reinstalled ubuntu-desktop, my keyboard settings is broken. Auto-switch layout keyboard don't work. When I change the window, language switchs to default (i. e. eng). Now…
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Default keys "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0" to input "! @ # $ % ^ & * ( )"

Doing math homework on a full keyboard. Would like the top row to be the special characters without holding shift.
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Ubuntu 20.04, switch between two keyboard layouts does not work properly

on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 installation, i'm currently facing the issue that i can't switch between two keyboard layouts with the shortcut super + space. I use a Duck2 mini with QWERTY layout, ubuntu system language is English (US) and also the first…
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How to initiate automatic execution of commands upon keyboard layout switch?

I want to execute the following commands: xmodmap -e "keycode 52=y" xmodmap -e "keycode 29=z" whenever I switch my keyboard layout (Shift+Alt). Is there any way to do that?
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How do I enter Polish characters?

I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and... I've got a problem :) I'm living in Poland, so I want to write texts in polish with polish chars such as ąćęłńóśźż, too. Unfortunately, it's impossible. We write polish chars by pressing AltGr and chosen key…
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Additional Language in KDE

I just installed KDE desktop environment and I want to install an additional language (Urdu) in unity 2d I was using it butt in KDE Its seems very difficult. Some where I get to know about to change some thing in etc/x11/xkb/symbols but when I tried…
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How to layout the filesystem for a small SSD and a big HDD?

Since I don't use my laptop's CD-drive I want to put a small (8 GB) SSD into the CD-drive slot (I'll use a caddy similar to this one). I want to use compressed btrfs on the SSD and put all the data on the big HDD. I want to avoid unnecessary…
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Keyboard layout keeps allways falling back to default after reboot - how to change?

I have Chromebook Acer C7 and i like it. It's fast etc. To install *buntu linux on it i did use Crouton. It's a program who install *buntu on ChromeOS without erace the orginal system. Anyway! I have problem with the keyboard layout. I have…
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Separate keyboard shortcuts for switching between keyboard layouts

I have a few language keyboard layouts installed in 12.04. I am using Ctrl-Shift keyboard shortcut for switching between language layouts. Such switching method takes a lot of my time. Is there any possibility to set up a different keyboard…
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gnome-panel doesn't work correctly with separate x screens

I am having a problem with Gnome3 (actually, I have it set to fallback mode, or Gnome 2). I have two displays and I need an X screen (I used nvidia-xconfig and nvidia-settings to do this) for each screen. However, every time I either restart X or…
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