Window control refers to the close, minimize, and maximize buttons which are on, and used to control, windows.
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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…
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How to close, minimize, and maximize a specified window from Terminal?
I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18 and I am wondering if there is a way from Terminal to close, minimize, unminimize, maximize, and unmaximize specified windows?
Note - I've looked at this Q&A - I am asking how to do it from Terminal...…
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How to restore correct window control behaviour in Gnome?
I'm having an issue on my laptop which is preventing me from changing the settings for GTK+ applications that use headerbars. Non-header bar applications are working just fine.
What happened is that I'd previously had Pantheon installed, but since…
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Is it possible to give an application window-control buttons which it currently does not have?
I don't know how possible this will be as I have programmed a lot before and have often set it so that programs are not able to be resized etc and making it so that it does not have certain window-control buttons (the minimize, maximize, and close…
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Remove title bar from GNOME but keep window controls
I want to remove the title bar from maximized GNOME applications, but every extension that does this also removes the window controls. How do I get rid of the title and keep the controls?
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What command can I use to minimize the current terminal window?
Which command can I use to minimize the current terminal window. i.e. this should do the same as a click on the minimize window control:
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Has or will Bug #1568490 ever be addressed?
I am an old and ornery guy that has had the window controls on the right of window since the Windows 3.1 days. Along comes this new fandangled Unity thing and it moves the buttons to the left. I would love to give this Unity a chance, but my mind…
