How to roll a window up into its title bar in linux mint 12

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If you have a lot of windows open on your Linux Mint desktop, wouldn’t it be nice to “roll up” windows to get them out of the way, but still see what you have open?

We found a setting in Linux Mint 12 that allows you to change the behavior that occurs when you double-click on the title bar of a window. By default, double-clicking on a title bar maximizes that window. However, the maximize button on the title bar does the same thing. So, why not have the window “roll up” when you double-click the title bar?

To change windows to “roll up” when you double-click on the title bar, select Other | Advanced Settings from the Applications menu.

On the Advanced Settings dialog box, select Windows in the left pane.

The first drop-down list allows you to change how a window behaves when you double-click on its title bar. By default, Toggle Maximize is selected. That means when you double-click on the title bar of a window when it’s not maximized, the window is maximized. When you double-click the title bar of a maximized window, that window is restored to a resizable state. To change this behavior, click the arrow on the Action on title bar double-click drop-down list.

While holding the mouse button down, scroll through the list and select Toggle Shade.

There is no Close or OK button or other button to close the Advanced Settings dialog box. To close it, click the X button in the upper, right corner.

Now, to hide a window and only display its title bar, double-click on the title bar.

To display the full window, double-click on the title bar again.

You can move the windows around the desktop in their “rolled up” state. This allows you to roll up all your windows and arrange the title bars to optimize your screen space.

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If you have a lot of windows open on your Linux Mint desktop, wouldn’t it be nice to “roll up” windows to get them out of the way, but still see what you have open?

We found a setting in Linux Mint 12 that allows you to change the behavior that occurs when you double-click on the title bar of a window. By default, double-clicking on a title bar maximizes that window. However, the maximize button on the title bar does the same thing. So, why not have the window “roll up” when you double-click the title bar?

To change windows to “roll up” when you double-click on the title bar, select Other | Advanced Settings from the Applications menu.

On the Advanced Settings dialog box, select Windows in the left pane.

The first drop-down list allows you to change how a window behaves when you double-click on its title bar. By default, Toggle Maximize is selected. That means when you double-click on the title bar of a window when it’s not maximized, the window is maximized. When you double-click the title bar of a maximized window, that window is restored to a resizable state. To change this behavior, click the arrow on the Action on title bar double-click drop-down list.

While holding the mouse button down, scroll through the list and select Toggle Shade.

There is no Close or OK button or other button to close the Advanced Settings dialog box. To close it, click the X button in the upper, right corner.

Now, to hide a window and only display its title bar, double-click on the title bar.

To display the full window, double-click on the title bar again.

You can move the windows around the desktop in their “rolled up” state. This allows you to roll up all your windows and arrange the title bars to optimize your screen space.

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Change window border/title bar

Change window border/title bar

Post by matej010 » Tue Apr 19, 2016 6:24 am

Hello!
So I’ve just switched to mint mate and am getting a little annoyed with the design of windows. After installing chromium I discovered it had an option to not use system title bar and borders. I tried to do right click on other windows but there was no such option. Is there a way I can make all the windows as beautiful as they are in chromium?

Picture of chromium without system title bar and borders:

Re: Change window border/title bar

Post by Penn » Tue Apr 19, 2016 9:54 am

You have 2 options.

Search for a new theme in places such as .

The other option would be to rewrite a theme you already have. Just go to /usr/share/themes and copy one, change the name, go into the folders and change the files.

For just the title bar and borders it is in the metacity folder and it is one of the .xml documents (I don’t know which in Mate but Cinnamon it is metacity3.xml). Sometimes you need to logout and log back in to see the changes. You may find the current values are things such as “bg [normal]” which means it pulls the color from gtk-2 folder in a document called gtkrc. That file is also where you can change all the aspects of the theme not controlled in metacity..

There are a lot of things you can change in your theme and it is easy to mess things up but you can get most of your theme looking the way you want. Be sure to have backups in case you do mess up the one you are working on.

I guess a third option would be wait a month or so for Mint 18 to be released and try the new themes that will be included with that release.

Dacă aveți o mulțime de ferestre deschise pe desktop-ul dvs. de Linux Mint, nu ar fi frumos să “roll up” ferestre pentru a le scoate din drum, dar încă vedea ce ai deschis?

Am găsit o setare în Linux Mint 12, care vă permite să schimbați comportamentul care apare când faceți dublu clic pe bara de titlu a unei ferestre. Implicit, dublul clic pe o bară de titlu maximizează fereastra. Cu toate acestea, butonul de maximizare din bara de titlu face același lucru. Deci, de ce nu aveți fereastra “roll up” când faceți dublu clic pe bara de titlu?

Pentru a schimba ferestrele în “roll up” când faceți dublu clic pe bara de titlu, selectați Other | Setări avansate din meniul Aplicații.

În caseta de dialog Setări avansate, selectați Windows în panoul din stânga.

Prima listă derulantă vă permite să modificați modul în care se comportă o fereastră când faceți dublu clic pe bara de titlu. În mod prestabilit, se selectează Toggle Maximize. Aceasta înseamnă că atunci când faceți dublu clic pe bara de titlu a unei ferestre atunci când nu este maximizată, fereastra este maximizată. Când faceți dublu clic pe bara de titlu a unei ferestre maximizate, fereastra este restabilită la o stare redimensionabilă. Pentru a schimba acest comportament, faceți clic pe săgeata din lista derulantă Acțiune în bara de titlu.

În timp ce mențineți butonul mouse-ului în jos, derulați lista și selectați Toggle Shade.

Nu există nici un buton Închidere sau OK sau alt buton pentru a închide caseta de dialog Setări avansate. Pentru al închide, faceți clic pe butonul X din colțul din dreapta sus.

Acum, pentru a ascunde o fereastră și a afișa doar bara de titlu, faceți dublu clic pe bara de titlu.

Pentru a afișa fereastra completă, faceți dublu clic pe bara de titlu din nou.

Aveți posibilitatea să mutați ferestrele în jurul spațiului de lucru în starea lor “înfășurată”. Aceasta vă permite să vă rostogoliți toate ferestrele și să aranjați barele de titlu pentru a optimiza spațiul de pe ecran.

Ako imate mnogo otvorenih prozora na radnoj površini Linux Mint-a, zar ne bi bilo lijepo “zamotati” prozore kako bi ih uklonili s puta, ali još uvijek vidite što imate otvorene?

Pronašli smo postavku u Linuxu Mint 12 koja vam omogućuje da promijenite ponašanje koje se događa kada dvaput kliknete na naslovnu traku prozora. Prema zadanim postavkama dvostruki klik na naslovnu traku povećava taj prozor. Međutim, gumb Maksimiziraj na naslovnoj traci čini isto. Dakle, zašto se prozor ne “okrene” kada dvaput kliknete na naslovnu traku?

Za promjenu prozora na “roll up” kada dvaput kliknete na naslovnu traku, odaberite Other | Napredne postavke iz izbornika Aplikacije.

U dijaloškom okviru Napredne postavke odaberite Windows u lijevom oknu.

Prvi padajući popis omogućuje vam da promijenite kako se prozor ponaša kada dvaput kliknete na naslovnu traku. Prema zadanim postavkama, Toggle Maximize je odabrano. To znači da kada dvaput kliknete na naslovnu traku prozora kada nije maksimiziran, prozor je maksimiziran. Kada dvaput kliknete naslovnu traku maksimiziranog prozora, taj se prozor vraća u stanje promjenjive veličine. Da biste promijenili takvo ponašanje, kliknite strelicu na akciji na naslovnoj traci dvaput kliknite na padajući popis.

Dok držite tipku miša dolje, pomičite se kroz popis i odaberite Toggle Shade.

Nema gumba Close ili OK ili nekog drugog gumba za zatvaranje dijaloškog okvira Advanced Settings. Da biste ga zatvorili, kliknite gumb X u gornjem desnom kutu.

Sada, da biste sakrili prozor i prikazali samo naslovnu traku, dvaput kliknite na naslovnu traku.

Za prikaz cijelog prozora ponovno dvaput kliknite na naslovnu traku.

Prozore možete pomicati po radnoj površini u njihovom “valjanom” stanju. To vam omogućuje da zamotate sve prozore i rasporedite naslovne trake kako biste optimizirali prostor na zaslonu.

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Shading via Double-Click on Title Bar

Shading via Double-Click on Title Bar

Post by levinaris » Mon Feb 06, 2012 1:22 pm

Using Linux Mint 12 64-bit edition, how do you shade an application by double-clicking the titlebar? The default is to maximize the application.

I did find a setting under “Advanced Settings” -> Windows -> “Action on title bar double-click”. After changing this to Shade, nothing changed.

What am I missing here?

Edit: If I am missing any other crucial bits of information, please let me know and I’ll provide it.

Re: Shading via Double-Click on Title Bar

Post by levinaris » Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:50 pm

After quite a bit of research, I’ve found that this feature simply does not exist.

When Linux Mint adopted Gnome 3 as its Window Manager in it’s version 12 release, this option is just gone. Gnome 3 does not support it. The best I was able to find were other users writing and hoping that Gnome 3 ultimately adopts an extension or plugin that will allow this in the future.

That being said, the Linux Mint developers should probably revisit their Window options in Advanced Settings, since it seems that they’re not fully supported any more.

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Si tiene muchas ventanas abiertas en su escritorio de Linux Mint, ¿no sería bueno “enrollar” las ventanas para eliminarlas, pero seguir viendo lo que tiene abierto?

Encontramos una configuración en Linux Mint 12 que le permite cambiar el comportamiento que se produce al hacer doble clic en la barra de título de una ventana. De forma predeterminada, al hacer doble clic en una barra de título se maximiza esa ventana. Sin embargo, el botón de maximizar en la barra de título hace lo mismo. Entonces, ¿por qué no se “enrolla” la ventana cuando haces doble clic en la barra de título?

Para cambiar las ventanas a “enrollar” al hacer doble clic en la barra de título, seleccione Otro | Configuración avanzada desde el menú Aplicaciones.

En el cuadro de diálogo Configuración avanzada, seleccione Windows en el panel izquierdo.

La primera lista desplegable le permite cambiar el comportamiento de una ventana cuando hace doble clic en su barra de título. Por defecto, se selecciona Toggle Maximize. Eso significa que cuando hace doble clic en la barra de título de una ventana cuando no está maximizada, la ventana está maximizada. Cuando hace doble clic en la barra de título de una ventana maximizada, esa ventana se restaura a un estado de tamaño variable. Para cambiar este comportamiento, haga clic en la flecha en la lista desplegable de doble clic de la Acción en la barra de título.

Mientras mantiene presionado el botón del mouse, desplácese por la lista y seleccione Alternar sombra.

No hay un botón Cerrar o Aceptar u otro botón para cerrar el cuadro de diálogo Configuración avanzada. Para cerrarlo, haga clic en el botón X en la esquina superior derecha.

Ahora, para ocultar una ventana y solo mostrar su barra de título, haga doble clic en la barra de título.

Para mostrar la ventana completa, vuelva a hacer doble clic en la barra de título.

Puede mover las ventanas alrededor del escritorio en su estado “enrollado”. Esto le permite enrollar todas sus ventanas y organizar las barras de título para optimizar su espacio en la pantalla.

Якщо на вашому робочому столі Linux Mint є багато відкритих вікон, не було б приємно “закатати” вікна, щоб вивести їх з шляху, але все одно побачите, що у вас є відкритим?

Ми знайшли налаштування в Linux Mint 12, яке дозволяє змінити поведінку, що виникає, коли ви двічі клацнете на рядку заголовка вікна. За промовчанням подвійне клацання на рядку заголовка збільшує це вікно. Проте кнопка розгортання на рядку заголовка робить те ж саме. Отже, чому у вікні «закатати» вікно, коли ви двічі клацнете рядок заголовка?

Щоб змінити вікна на “згортання”, коли ви двічі клацнете на рядку заголовка, виберіть “Інше” Додаткові параметри з меню Програми.

У діалоговому вікні Додаткові параметри виберіть Windows на лівій панелі.

Перший випадаючий список дозволяє змінити спосіб ведення вікна, коли ви двічі клацнете на рядку заголовка. За замовчуванням вибирається Toggle Maximize. Це означає, що коли ви двічі клацнете на рядку заголовка вікна, коли воно не буде максимальним, вікно буде розгорнуто. Коли ви двічі клацнете рядок заголовка розгорнутого вікна, це вікно буде відновлено до стану змінної. Щоб змінити цю поведінку, клацніть стрілку у вікні Дія на панелі заголовка двічі клацнувши розкривний список.

Утримуючи кнопку миші, прокрутіть список і виберіть Toggle Shade.

Немає кнопки Close або OK або іншої кнопки, щоб закрити діалогове вікно розширених параметрів. Щоб закрити його, натисніть кнопку X у верхньому правому куті.

Тепер, щоб приховати вікно і відобразити лише його заголовок, двічі клацніть на рядку заголовка.

Щоб відобразити повне вікно, двічі клацніть на рядку заголовка.

Ви можете переміщати вікна навколо робочого столу у своєму “згорнутому” стані. Це дозволяє згорнути всі вікна і розташувати рядки заголовків для оптимізації простору екрана.

If you’re into a sleek and minimal aesthetic when it comes to Linux, removing the title bar in Mozilla Firefox can help you accomplish that feel. The title bar isn’t really necessary anyway, since it just contains information that’s already available in the title of the tabs.

In this guide, we’ll show you the step by step instructions to remove the title bar in Firefox. These same steps can also be used to toggle it back on.

In this tutorial you will learn:

• How to remove Firefox title bar on Linux

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Remove Firefox title bar

The following instructions should work across any Linux distro and Firefox installation. In case you don’t know what exactly the title bar is, check out the screenshot below. That’s what we’ll be removing.

1. Start by opening Firefox, clicking the menu icon (three stacked lines in the upper right corner), and selecting Customize.

That’s all there is to it. And one last tip: you can always drag the Firefox window via the little spot to the left of all the tabs. Therefore, the “drag space” option is never strictly necessary, but some users may find it convenient.

Conclusion

In this guide, we saw how to toggle the Firefox title bar on or off in a Linux system. Controlling your web browser’s interface is a nice feature that can allow you to achieve a more minimal or more robust feel. Ready to customize the look even more? Check out our guide on enabling dark mode in Firefox.

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Linux Mint masaüstünüzde açık birçok pencere varsa, pencereleri yoldan çıkarmak için “açmak” hoş olmaz mıydı, ama yine de neyin açık olduğunu görüyor musunuz?

Linux Mint 12’de bir pencerenin başlık çubuğuna çift tıkladığınızda gerçekleşen davranışı değiştirmenize izin veren bir ayar bulduk. Varsayılan olarak, bir başlık çubuğuna çift tıklamak bu pencereyi büyütür. Bununla birlikte, başlık çubuğundaki büyütme düğmesi aynı şeyi yapar. Öyleyse, neden başlık çubuğunu çift tıklattığınızda pencere “yuvarlanmıyor”?

Başlık çubuğunu çift tıklattığınızda pencereleri “rulo” olarak değiştirmek için, Diğer | Uygulamalar menüsünden Gelişmiş Ayarlar.

Gelişmiş Ayarlar iletişim kutusunda, sol bölmeden Windows’u seçin.

İlk açılır liste, başlık çubuğuna çift tıkladığınızda pencerenin nasıl davranacağını değiştirmenizi sağlar. Varsayılan olarak, Toggle Maximize seçilidir. Bu, bir pencerenin başlık çubuğunda büyütülmediğinde çift tıklattığınızda, pencerenin büyütüldüğü anlamına gelir. Büyütülmüş bir pencerenin başlık çubuğunu çift tıklattığınızda, bu pencere yeniden boyutlandırılabilir bir duruma geri yüklenir. Bu davranışı değiştirmek için, başlık çubuğundaki Eylem üzerindeki oku tıklayın ve açılır listeyi çift tıklayın.

Fare düğmesini basılı tutarken listede ilerleyin ve Gölgeyi Değiştir’i seçin.

Gelişmiş Ayarlar iletişim kutusunu kapatmak için Kapat veya Tamam düğmesi veya başka bir düğme yoktur. Kapatmak için sağ üst köşedeki X düğmesine tıklayın.

Şimdi, bir pencereyi gizlemek ve sadece başlık çubuğunu görüntülemek için başlık çubuğuna çift tıklayın.

Tam pencereyi görüntülemek için başlık çubuğuna tekrar çift tıklayın.

Pencereleri masaüstünün etrafındakileri “yuvarlanma” durumunda taşıyabilirsiniz. Bu, tüm pencerelerinizi yuvarlamanıza ve ekran alanınızı optimize etmek için başlık çubuklarını düzenlemenize olanak sağlar.

Jei „Linux Mint“ darbalaukyje yra daug langų, ar būtų malonu „atsukti“ langus, kad juos išeitų iš kelio, bet vis tiek pamatysite, ką turite atidarę?

„Linux Mint 12“ radome nustatymą, leidžiantį pakeisti elgesį, kuris atsiranda, kai dukart spustelėsite lango pavadinimo juostą. Pagal nutylėjimą dukart spustelėjus ant pavadinimo juostos, šis langas padidinamas. Tačiau pavadinimo juostos mygtukas maksimaliai padidina tą patį. Taigi, kodėl neturite lango „Roll up“, kai dukart spustelėkite antraštės juostą?

Norėdami pakeisti langus į „roll up“, kai dukart spustelėsite antraštės juostą, pasirinkite Other | Išplėstiniai nustatymai meniu Programos.

Dialogo lange Išplėstiniai nustatymai kairiojoje srityje pasirinkite „Windows“.

Pirmame išskleidžiamajame sąraše galite pakeisti lango veikimo būdą, kai dukart spustelėkite ant jo pavadinimo juostos. Pagal numatytuosius nustatymus yra pasirinkta Toggle Maximize. Tai reiškia, kad dukart spustelėjus lango pavadinimo juostą, kai jis nėra maksimalus, langas yra maksimalus. Dukart spustelėjus maksimalaus lango pavadinimo juostą, tas langas bus atstatomas į dydį. Jei norite pakeisti šį elgesį, spustelėkite rodyklę ant veiksmų juostos antraštės juostos dukart spustelėkite išskleidžiamąjį sąrašą.

Laikydami nuspaudę pelės mygtuką, slinkite per sąrašą ir pasirinkite Toggle Shade.

Dialogo lango Išplėstiniai nustatymai uždarymo nėra mygtuko Uždaryti arba Gerai arba kitas mygtukas. Norėdami jį uždaryti, viršutiniame dešiniajame kampe spustelėkite mygtuką X.

Dabar, norėdami paslėpti langą ir rodyti tik jo pavadinimo juostą, dukart spustelėkite antraštės juostos.

Norėdami rodyti visą langą, dar kartą spustelėkite antraštės juostos.

Galite perkelti langus aplink darbalaukį savo „susukti“ būsenoje. Tai leidžia susukti visus savo langus ir susikurti pavadinimo juostas, kad optimizuotumėte ekrano erdvę.

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zachbr commented Dec 18, 2018 •

Version: 1.30.0
Commit: c6e592b
Date: 2018-12-11T22:21:33.585Z
Electron: 2.0.12
Chrome: 61.0.3163.100
Node.js: 8.9.3
V8: 6.1.534.41
OS: Linux (various, see below)

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install vscode 1.30.0 on any Linux distro and run it
2. Compare vscode’s titlebar with native applications.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No
Yes

While the new title bar is nice, enabling it by default on Linux and having it ignore the distribution and user’s desktop themes makes vscode look very out of place. On some distributions it isn’t too bad. However on others it can look quite out of place on the system. This is not all that different from a Windows application using a macOS style title bar, or vice-versa.

Ideally, vscode’s custom title bar should make an attempt to respect the style set forth by the desktop environment. Failing that, perhaps it would be better to disable this feature by default in order to maintain cohesion with the desktop environment, allowing advanced users or those who don’t care to enable it manually in settings.

Ubuntu 18.10 ( Linux x64 4.18.0-10-generic )

Fedora 29 ( Linux x64 4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64 )

KDE Neon ( Linux x64 4.15.0-39-generic )

elementaryOS ( Linux x64 4.15.0-42-generic )

Decided to test vscode insider for this last one.

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Title bar disappears on some applications when maximizing some windows. It mainly happens when I maximize application windows.

For instance, when the System Monitor is maximized the title bar remains but when Firefox is maximized the title bar disappears. Even worse, the same thing happens in Spotify but with Spotify I can’t even get it to change size after I’ve maximized it because the title bar is gone.

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GNOME Terminal always opens maximised did lead me to the answer it was with a program Maximus I had installed to run some games in fullscreen windowed mode that I don’t even use anymore so after purging it and rebooting all problems had been fixed. If you are using Maximus and want to continue using it for other purposes than hiding title bars I did also figure out that pressing Alt+Space+X will bring them back.

I was facing this same issue. I work with two monitors and need to move application windows, especially Chrome and Firefox browser windows, frequently among the monitors. This is achievable by two methods:

1. [Shift] + [Super] + arrow keys [Left|Right|Up|Down]
2. Right-Click title bar and click on “Move to Monitor [Left|Right|Up|Down]”

Sometime few months back, the title bar suddenly disappeared for some maximized windows. It was tortuous for me to use the keyboard method frequently. I had been looking everywhere for a solution to “unmerge” the title bar from the tab bar or to always show it.

Today, I found a simple solution for my setup of Ubuntu 18.04 using the Ambiance theme. Here are the steps I did.

In the above file, the last line was as below:

I changed above to:

and saved the file.

And, my issue was resolved.

You should be able to grab the window by clicking on the dash bar and dragging down.

Additionally, ALT + F10 and/or SUPER + 🡅 will maximize and unmaximize a window. You can also hold down the SUPER key and drag anywhere in a window to move it.

However, For Firefox there is a setting to remove or include a title bar.

Go to “Menu” > “Customize” > and then untick the box to disable “Title Bar” (on the lower left side).

It may seem counterintuitive to disable the title bar. However, when you disable the title bar in Firefox, the window buttons will display on the window in the tab bar area, even when the window is maximized. Additionally, double clicking on any blank space next to your tabs will unmaximize/maximize the window and the tab area will function as the title bar.

_{Also, you may need to make sure that “Drag Space” is disabled and if your window buttons disappear after changing these settings, just close Firefox and reopen the application.}

Ak máte na pracovnej ploche systému Linux Mint veľa okien, nebolo by to pekné, keby ste ich vybrali z cesty, ale stále vidíte, čo máte otvorené?

Našli sme nastavenie v systéme Linux Mint 12, ktorý vám umožňuje zmeniť správanie, ktoré sa vyskytuje, keď dvakrát kliknete na záhlavie okna. Štandardne dvojitým kliknutím na záhlavie sa maximalizuje toto okno. Avšak tlačidlo maximalizácie v záhlaví robí to isté. Takže, prečo nemáte okno “roll up”, keď dvakrát kliknete na záhlavie?

Ak zmeníte okná na “rolovanie”, keď dvakrát kliknete na záhlavie, vyberte položku Iné | Rozšírené nastavenia z ponuky Aplikácie.

V dialógovom okne rozšírených nastavení vyberte v ľavej časti okna Windows.

Prvý rozbaľovací zoznam vám umožňuje zmeniť, ako sa má okno správať, keď dvakrát kliknete na jeho záhlavie. Štandardne je vybratá možnosť Toggle Maximize. To znamená, že keď dvakrát kliknete na záhlavie okna, keď nie je maximalizované, okno sa maximalizuje. Keď dvakrát kliknete na záhlavie maximalizovaného okna, okno sa vráti do stavu s meniteľnou veľkosťou. Ak chcete zmeniť toto správanie, kliknite na šípku v rozbaľovacom zozname Akcia v záhlaví dvojitého kliknutia.

Kým držte tlačidlo myši nadol, prechádzajte zoznamom a vyberte možnosť Prepnúť stín.

Na zavretie dialógového okna Rozšírené nastavenia nie je žiadne tlačidlo Close alebo OK alebo iné tlačidlo. Ak ho chcete zatvoriť, kliknite na tlačidlo X v hornom pravom rohu.

Ak chcete skryť okno a zobraziť len jeho názov, dvakrát kliknite na záhlavie.

Ak chcete zobraziť celé okno, dvakrát kliknite na záhlavie.

Okná okolo pracovnej plochy môžete presunúť v stave “srolovaných”. To vám umožní zväčšiť všetky vaše okná a usporiadať záhlavie na optimalizáciu priestoru obrazovky.

Author : Andrew | Posted: March 07, 2011

If you like how Chrome displays the window controls (close, minimize and maximize buttons) next to the tabs and want this in Firefox under Linux, you’ll be glad to know it’s quite easy to achieve.

Before we proceed, here are a couple of screenshots using Ambiance and Orta Stylish themes (these are styles for the buttons only):

How it works

Get the window controls next to the Firefox menu and remove the Firefox titlebar

1. For this you’ll need Stylish and Hide Caption Titlebar Plus Firefox extensions. Install them, restart Firefox and proceed to step 2.

• Show Firefox’s titlebar: Disabled
• Uncheck “New Firefox option: Place Tabs in the Titlebar
• Skin for minimize, max & close buttons: “Auto. Current theme’s skin“
• Minimize, Max & Close Buttons located at top-right corner: Disabled
• Uncheck Floating buttons appears when hovering micro-button or main menu is activated

Here’s a screenshot with the exact settings:

On the “Look & Feel 2” tab (yes, another Look & Feel tab):

• Uncheck: Enable custom Firefox Application “Home” button

Here’s a screenshot for this too:

4. Now you should see some buttons next to your Firefox menu but they look ugly. To get some nice looking Ambiance-style buttons, install HCTP Ambiance theme. There’s also an Orta HCTP theme (only enable one!).

Update: here’s another Orta style with a modified alignment which looks better (thanks to Janhouse!).

5. Install CompizConfig Settings Manager:

And go to the “Window Decorations” plugin settings and under “Decoration windows”, enter:

Important: “class=Firefox” is for those using Firefox stable. If you’re using Minefield for instance, replace “Firefox” with “Minefield”.

Apply this for unmaximized Firefox windows too

– for Ambiance, remove the following code (you should find it somewhere near the end of the file):

Then click save.

– for Orta there are 2 steps:

2) then, just like for Ambiance, remove the following code (you should find it somewhere near the end of the file):

Hi,
I love to have the tabs on the (left) side. However, with side tabs there is the mostly empty window title bar shown above the address bar.
This is not the case when tabs are on the top (and the Vivaldi button is chosen as menu position), where the tabs, the Vivaldi button and the window max/min/close buttons are combined into a single bar.

Similarly, in order to kind of harmonize the appearance of side and top tabs, and to avoid wasting precious vertical space, I suggest to combine the window title and the addresss bars when tabs are on the side and the Vivaldi button is chosen as menu position.

So this:

Should look like:

I am using this awesome CSS mod to achieve this but have to redo the mod after every update:

I like the idea, but with a little modification:

If only the address field is in the tab bar, there will be more room for tabs. Buttons (back, forward, refresh) can be hidden if you set up a shortcut or mouse gesture to toggle the (original) addressbar.

Since the buttons can already be freely moved, I don’t see a big obstacle to putting the addressfield in the tab bar.

@mathiasbr this is exactly what i wanted! although it doesn’t work if the window isn’t maximised. any fixes for that?

I’m also using the ‘combine-header-toolbar.css’

and I would like to be able to drag the window at the vivaldi button

I usually open the vivaldi menu via hotkey and there for disabled the ‘pointer-events’ on that button

does anyone know how to make the button or rather the background-image able to drag the window from?

@mathiasbr this is exactly what i wanted! although it doesn’t work if the window isn’t maximised. any fixes for that?

Any fix for this one work not only in maximize mode?

Hi, does anybody have an updated version of the mod? for me on latest vivaldi snapshot version it’s not working, thanks!

Blockquote Combine Window Title and Address Bar when Tabs are on the Side

Not for the Side position only, but for Tabs on Bottom position too!
It’s very annoying the Title bar on top.

I feel one of the biggest improvements with Chrome on Windows is moving the tabs all the way to the top to the screen (so the mouse can just go all the way up, then click). I went with the kubuntu because they do not include the normal (pointless) Linux menu bar at the top of the screen. It took me an hour to get chrome on here and now I see there is a Giant pointless title bar across the top. It is a good 5% of the total screen area and it is just the title and close buttons. Is there anyway to have the chrome tabs all the way at the top of the screen like was intended by Google?

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Go to Chrome Menu ⇒ Settings ⇒ Appearance section, unmark Use system title bar and borders.

Open system settings (the systemsettings app), and go to WorkSpace Appearance → Window Decorations → Configure Decoration . Switch to the Window-Specific Overrides tab. There you have to add a new override, press Add button, you will see a new window with checkboxes. Press Detect Windows Properties button (your mouse cursor will turn into aim like icon), and click at the Google Chrome window. You will be prompted of whether to use window class, or just title, choose the window class checkbox. Finally, check Hide window title bar checkbox, press ok.

Note that you can move windows by holding Alt key and clicking them.

For those who also would like to get rid of window buttons (minimize, maximize, close).

Right-click the titlebar of Google Chrome, go to More Actions ⇒ Configure Special Application Settings. ⇒ Appearance & Fixes tab, mark No titlebar and frame, in the following menu select Force and then Yes on the right, click OK to save new settings.

If you need to access the window manager’s menu in KDE (like right-clicking the titlebar), you can always use Alt+F3 shortcut.

In the latest build of Chromium, version 94 now, the Menu ⇒ Settings ⇒ Appearance ⇒ Use system title bar and borders option is no longer available there.

What you need to do to access this option is Right Click in any empty space in the Tab Bar and select or deselect the Use system title bar and borders option from the drop down menu, as shown in the screenshots below below.

Use system title bar and borders option – Selected:

Use system title bar and borders option – Deselected:

Máte-li na pracovní ploše Linux Mint otevřeno velké množství oken, nebylo by hezké, kdyby se okna rozvinula, abyste je dostali z cesty, ale stále vidíte, co máte otevřeno?

Našli jsme nastavení v systému Linux Mint 12, který vám umožní změnit chování, ke kterému dochází, když poklepete na záhlaví okna. Ve výchozím nastavení dvojité klepnutí na záhlaví maximalizuje toto okno. Tlačítko Maximalizovat v záhlaví provede stejnou věc. Takže, proč nemáte okno “roll up”, když dvakrát kliknete na záhlaví?

Chcete-li změnit okna na “rozbalit”, když poklepete na záhlaví, vyberte možnost Další | Pokročilá nastavení v nabídce Aplikace.

V dialogovém okně Pokročilé nastavení vyberte v levém podokně okno Windows.

První rozbalovací seznam umožňuje změnit, jak se okno chová, když poklepete na jeho záhlaví. Ve výchozím nastavení je vybrána možnost Toggle Maximize. To znamená, že pokud dvakrát kliknete na záhlaví okna, pokud není maximalizováno, okno se maximalizuje. Když poklepete na záhlaví maximalizovaného okna, okno se obnoví do stavu, který lze změnit. Chcete-li toto chování změnit, klepněte na šipku v rozevíracím seznamu Akce na hlavním panelu.

Podržte tlačítko myši dolů, procházejte seznamem a vyberte možnost Přepnout stín.

Klepnutím na tlačítko Zavřít nebo OK nebo jiné tlačítko zavřete dialogové okno Pokročilé nastavení. Chcete-li jej zavřít, klikněte na tlačítko X v pravém horním rohu.

Chcete-li skrýt okno a zobrazit pouze jeho název, poklepejte na záhlaví.

Chcete-li zobrazit celé okno, poklepejte na záhlaví znovu.

Okna kolem plochy můžete přesouvat v jejich “srolovaném” stavu. To vám dovoluje rozbalit všechna okna a uspořádat záhlaví pro optimalizaci prostoru na obrazovce.

This windows like panel in Linux Mint with icons only taskbar provides more space to easily deal with multiple applications. For users who are migrating from Windows to Linux, it will provide a feel of Window’s taskbar.

Note! This tutorial shows how to add a Windows like panel in Linux Mint. However, this procedure will work for other Linux distributions with the Cinnamon desktop environment.

Linux Mint provides a slim taskbar by default. When you open multiple applications, this default taskbar becomes full quickly as application names take more space on it.

The icons only taskbar is much better in this regard because it takes less space. It also makes Linux Mint similar to Windows 7 and thus it may appeal to new users transitioning from Windows

Adding Windows-like taskbar in Linux Mint

To add icons only taskbar to the panel, first of all you need to install Icing Task Manager applet. You install by following these steps: Open settings -> select Applets -> choose download tab -> search for Icing Task Manager -> Click on the download icon.

Configuring Icing Task Manager

After downloading the Icing Task Manager, you need to enable it in the pane to get the icons only taskbar. Go to: settings -> applets -> select manage tab -> select icing task manager -> click on plus (+) icon.

The icons only taskbar has appeared on the panel but it is placed on the very right side by default. To remove the slim taskbar with the names and to move the icons only taskbar to the right, do the following:

1. Right click on taskbar and enable Panel edit mode.
2. Drag the newly added windows taskbar to the right of the panel.
3. Remove old taskbar and quick launchers by right-clicking on them.
4. Right click on the panel again and disable the Panel edit mode.

Adding quick launchers

Now, the icons only taskbar substitute the default windows list taskbar, but it still lacks the quick launchers, which you removed following the steps above. Quick launchers provide faster access to programs, so you most likely will want them back. You can add the quick launchers by pinning specific programs in the icons only taskbar. Simply, right click on the icon of an opened application, select Pin to Panel option and its done!

So, now even when you close the application, the icon stays there on the panel.

Configuring Icing Task Manager

There are many settings for Icing Task Manager. You can configure it according to your liking. To open its settings, follow these steps: open settings -> applets -> select icing task manager -> click on configure icon.

Now, you can configure icons on your taskbar. You can add animations to icons, changer their style, customize their thumbnails, size and many more.

Conclusion

Now, you know how to add and configure a Window’s like icons only taskbar to your Linux Mint.

In summary, you need to follow these steps.

• Open applets in settings and install Icing Task Manager.
• Then add it to the panel.
• Enable Panel edit mode and move the newly added icons panel..
• Remove the default old taskbar.

You can do many more things after installing Linux Mint to improve your user experience.

If you have any queries, please ask in below.

I’m working on an opensource markdown supported minimal note taking application for Windows/Linux. I’m trying to remove the title bar and add my own buttons. I want something like, a title bar with only two custom buttons as shown in the figure

Currently I have this:

I’ve tried modifying the window flags:

• With not window flags, the window is both re-sizable and movable. But no custom buttons.
• Using self.setWindowFlags(QtCore.Qt.FramelessWindowHint) , the window has no borders, but cant move or resize the window
• Using self.setWindowFlags(QtCore.Qt.CustomizeWindowHint) , the window is resizable but cannot move and also cant get rid of the white part at the top of the window.

Any help appreciated. You can find the project on GitHub here.

This is my python code:

The UI file is created in the following hierarchy

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Here are the steps you just gotta follow:

1. Have your MainWindow, be it a QMainWindow, or QWidget, or whatever [widget] you want to inherit.
2. Set its flag, self.setWindowFlags(Qt.FramelessWindowHint)
3. Implement your own moving around.
4. Implement your own buttons (close, max, min)
5. Implement your own resize.

Here is a small example with move around, and buttons implemented. You should still have to implement the resize using the same logic.

Here are some tips:

Option 1:

1. Have a QGridLayout with widget in each corner and side(e.g. left, top-left, menubar, top-right, right, bottom-right, bottom and bottom left)
2. With the approach (1) you would know when you are clicking in each border, you just got to define each one size and add each one on their place.
3. When you click on each one treat them in their respective ways, for example, if you click in the left one and drag to the left, you gotta resize it larger and at the same time move it to the left so it will appear to be stopped at the right place and grow width.
4. Apply this reasoning to each edge, each one behaving in the way it has to.

Option 2:

Instead of having a QGridLayout you can detect in which place you are clicking by the click pos.

Verify if the x of the click is smaller than the x of the moving pos to know if it’s moving left or right and where it’s being clicked.

The calculation is made in the same way of the Option1

Option 3:

1. Probably there are other ways, but those are the ones I just thought of. For example using the CustomizeWindowHint you said you are able to resize, so you just would have to implement what I gave you as example. BEAUTIFUL!

Tips:

1. Be careful with the localPos(inside own widget), globalPos(related to your screen). For example: If you click in the very left of your left widget its ‘x’ will be zero, if you click in the very left of the middle(content)it will be also zero, although if you mapToGlobal you will having different values according to the pos of the screen.
2. Pay attention when resizing, or moving, when you have to add width or subtract, or just move, or both, I’d recommend you to draw on a paper and figure out how the logic of resizing works before implementing it out of blue.

Cinnamon desktop

Linux Mint is a nice distro that’s based on Ubuntu. This feature allows Linux Mint to enjoy the support from one of the largest Linux communities of all. Moreover, as it’s based on Ubuntu, it’s stable and fluent. Now, on top of Ubuntu, Linux Mint comes up in different desktop environments. The Cinnamon desktop is a unique one by nature. It mimics the functionality of Windows. Moreover, it’s homemade. Linux Mint is primarily focused on Cinnamon. The Cinnamon desktop is derived from the modern GNOME 3. However, it prefers to tweak the system to meet the traditional “desktop metaphor” conventions.

If you happen to have Linux Mint with any other desktop environment, then the following guide will help you to smoothly shift to the Cinnamon desktop. It’s super simple and there’s really nothing tough about it.

Installing Cinnamon

There are 2 ways we can enjoy the Cinnamon desktop: installing the Cinnamon desktop only or reinstalling Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop.

Installing Cinnamon only

This is the easiest way of enjoying Cinnamon. However, having 2 or more desktop environment on the same system is a risky move. In cases, desktop environments clash and cause compatibility issues, resulting in weird glitches and bugs. That’s why you’ll see that Linux Mint offers standalone Linux Mint installation with Cinnamon and other desktop environments. Ubuntu offers different Ubuntu flavors like Xubuntu (Xfce), Kubuntu (KDE Plasma), Lubuntu (LXQt), etc.

Fire up the terminal and refresh the APT cache.

Run the next command for installing Cinnamon and LightDM. LightDM is the default

Note: My current system is running MATE desktop.

Installing Linux Mint Cinnamon

This is the best way to avoid any potential conflict and remain stable. However, all the tweaks and changes you made previously won’t be available in your new system. If you prioritize stability and decide to go through this way, then make sure that you backup all the file(s) and tweaks in a safe place.

Ready? Grab the latest Linux Mint ISO with Cinnamon desktop.

Download complete? Make sure that the ISO file is not corrupted. Verify the SHA-256 hash of the downloaded file against the official SHA-256 hash. Learn how to check SHA-256 checksum of a file. Here are the official SHA-256 hashes for Linux Mint Cinnamon ISOs as of this writing.

• linuxmint-19.1-cinnamon-32bit.iso: b580052c4652ac8f1cbcd9057a0395642a722707d17e1a77844ff7fb4db36b70
• linuxmint-19.1-cinnamon-64bit.iso: bb4b3ad584f2fec1d91ad60fe57ad4044e5c0934a5e3d229da129c9513862eb0

Is your ISO file okay? If alright, then proceed to the next step. Otherwise, you have to download it again.

Make a bootable USB flash drive using Etcher or dd. Once ready, reboot the system and boot the USB flash drive.

Select the option “Start Linux Mint”. This will start a live session of Linux Mint Cinnamon.

Once the system is ready, you’ll be able to roam freely throughout the entire system and feel the change. For this guide, we’ll be proceeding with the installation procedure. Fire up the installer!

The first option is to choose a language. Select your native one for comfort or go with “English”.

Now, it’s time to choose the keyboard layout. If you’re using any specific keyboard layout, make sure to research on the internet and find out which layout to choose for your keyboard. In my case, I’m using a general QWERTY keyboard, so my layout of choice would be “English (US)”.

Note: You can also enjoy other keyboard layouts on QWERTY or other keyboard layouts. For that, choose the desired layout. Be careful; things will be tougher for you!

You’ll be asked to choose whether you want to install additional software and 3 rd -party apps right now. I always recommend checking the box. This will make things easier after completing the OS installation.

Next up, the partitioning. The recommended setup would be a separate partition with 20-30GB of space dedicated to the OS. Depending on your situation, things can change.

Choose the right region for your current position. It’ll be the crucial factor for deciding the time zone of your system, location, and others.

Enter the credentials for the new user account. This user will be the main admin account. The password will also be the default password for “root”. You can change it later, though. Learn how to change the root password. The tutorial is for Debian but remember: Linux Mint is Ubuntu-based and Ubuntu is Debian-based. Everything will work just fine.

All you have to do now is enjoy your cup of coffee and let the installer do its job.

Installation complete? Restart the system from the prompt!

Switching to Cinnamon

In either case, restart your system and reach the login page.

From the icon, you can choose which desktop environment to choose. If you’ve installed Cinnamon now, then choose Cinnamon. Don’t worry; from this time on, Linux Mint will always load Cinnamon desktop by default (unless you change it again).

Voila! Enjoy Cinnamon!

Final thoughts

The Cinnamon desktop is a phenomenal one. It holds the potential to attract any new and even veteran Linux user. It’s lightweight but modern; simple and intuitive. Give it a try if you’re on Linux Mint. After all, it’s one of the most powerful features of Linux Mint family!

About the author

Sidratul Muntaha

Student of CSE. I love Linux and playing with tech and gadgets. I use both Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

Benj Edwards is an Associate Editor for How-To Geek. For over 15 years, he has written about technology and tech history for sites such as The Atlantic, Fast Company, PCMag, PCWorld, Macworld, Ars Technica, and Wired. In 2005, he created Vintage Computing and Gaming, a blog devoted to tech history. He also created The Culture of Tech podcast and regularly contributes to the Retronauts retrogaming podcast. Read more.

You’re probably familiar with working from the hamburger menu in Mozilla Firefox. But, if you’d like to see the old school menu bar (with File, Edit, View, and more) at the top of your Firefox window, you have a few options. These work in both Firefox for Windows 10 and in Firefox on Linux.

Using “Alt” to Quickly See the Menu Bar

First, open Firefox—any window will do. If you need to quickly access an option in the menu bar, press the Alt key on your keyboard. The menu bar will appear at the top of the current Firefox window, and it will remain there until you make a selection or click elsewhere.

When it’s visible, you’ll see seven menu options: File, Edit, View, History, Bookmarks, Tools, and Help. Some of the menu bar tasks you can perform (such as File > Work Offline, File > Email Link, or Edit > Select All) are not available in the hamburger menu, so it’s good to know where to look if you can’t find a feature.

When you’re done making a selection—or if you click anywhere else—the menu will disappear again.

How to Always Show the Menu Bar in Firefox

If you’d like to keep Firefox’s menu bar open all the time, there’s a way to do that, too. Launch Firefox and right-click the tab bar at the top of any window, then place a check beside “Menu Bar” in the menu that appears.

Alternately, you can open the hamburger menu and choose “Customize.” In the “Customize Firefox” tab, click the “Toolbars” button near the bottom of the page and check “Menu Bar” in the menu that pops up.

After that, close the “Customize Firefox” tab, and the menu bar will always be visible from now on. If you ever want to hide the menu bar again, just right-click the menu bar and uncheck “Menu Bar.” Happy browsing!

Did you know that you can play Firefox’s hidden unicorn game from the Customize Firefox pane?

GNOME, the default desktop, shows focused app menu in the top bar next to the upper left Activities button.

Users may use the menu to open or switch between windows of the same app, launch preferences dialog, or close the app window. The design is great, but some may not use the menu and find it useless.

So here’s how to disable this feature in all current Ubuntu releases, e.g., Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 21.10, that running the default GNOME desktop.

Disable Top bar App menu in Ubuntu 18.04:

For Ubuntu 18.04, it’s easy to get rid of the menu since the popular “GNOME Tweaks” tool has an option to toggle it.

1.) Firstly, search for and install Gnome Tweaks from Ubuntu Software if you don’t have it.

2.) Next launch the configuration tool by searching from the Activities overview screen. When it opens, navigate to “Top Bar” in the left pane, then you’ll see the option to turn on/off the App menu.

Remove Top bar App menu in Ubuntu 20.04 & higher:

For any reason, GNOME Tweaks removed the option to toggle the function in recent Ubuntu releases. However, there are quite a few GNOME extensions can do the job! And here’s the one that works on GNOME 3.36, 3.38, 40, and 41.

Which means Linux distributions include Debian 11, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, Ubuntu 21.10, Fedora 34 can install the extension to remove the top bar app-menu.

1.) Firstly open terminal either by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard or by searching from the ‘Activities’ overview.

2.) When terminal opens, run command to install chrome-gnome-shell package if you don’t have it:

The package makes it possible to install GNOME extension from ‘extensions.gnome.org’ via your web browser.

3.) Finally click the link button below to go to the ‘Remove App Menu’ extension page, and turn on the slider icon to install it.

Turn on the toggle icon to install Remove App Menu extension

Don’t worry if you don’t see the slider icon, install browser extension via ‘Click here to install the browser extension‘ link and REFRESH the web page will make it visible.

After installed the extension, the top bar app menu disappears immediately in my case. If not, try restart Gnome Shell (press Alt+F2, type r and hit Enter) or log out and back in.

Restore the App Menu

If you change your mind, simply go to the extension web page again and turn off the toggle icon will remove it.

Or, install the ‘Gnome Extensions‘ app by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard and running command in pop-up terminal:

Then launch the tool and you’ll see the options to toggle all installed extensions. By clicking on the little triangle icon at the end of each line, you may also remove that extension.

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The main menu in Linux Mint 12 contains a lot of items, but what if you wanted to add custom items, remove items, or rearrange items? To edit the main menu, you must use a menu editor program called Alacarte.

For some reason, Alacarte is no longer installed by default in Linux Mint. However, it is available in the Software Manager and it’s easy to install. To begin, select Other | Software Manager from the Applications menu.

In the Search box on the Software Manager window, enter “alacarte” (without the quotes). You do not need to press Enter to see the results. They display as you type. Click the “alacarte” result.

On the alacarte screen, click Install.

You must authenticate when installing software. Enter your password in the Password edit box on the Authenticate dialog box and click Authenticate.

The progress of the installation displays at the bottom of the Software Manager window.

When the installation is finished, the alacarte screen may not displays the current status. The screen may say “Not installed” even though the software has been installed. If you want to make sure, click the Search results arrow on the breadcrumbs at the top of the window. Then, click “alacarte” in the list of results again.

The “alacarte” screen should now read Installed and there should be a Remove button, used to uninstall the software, if desired.

To close the Software Manager, select Close from the File menu.

To open the alacarte menu editor, select Other | Main Menu from the Applications menu.

The Main Menu window displays. On the left is a list of all the menu categories available. When you select a category, items available in that category display on the right. Items in italics on both lists are not currently being displayed on the menu. To display a currently hidden item, select the check box to the left of the item.

To add an item not currently available in any menu category, select the category into which you wish to insert the item, and click New Item.

The Create Launcher dialog box displays. If you are adding a program, make sure Application is selected in the Type drop-down list. You can also add a Location (or folder) to the menu. Enter a name for the application in the Name edit box. This name displays on the menu. To enter the command to run when the menu item is selected, click Browse and find the executable file for the program. You can enter a comment for the application in the Comment edit box, but it is not required. This Comment displays as a popup hint when you move your mouse over the menu item. Click OK once you have entered the information.

We added RedNotebook to the Other menu category.

By default, the items on the main menu are listed alphabetically, but you can change that and move items up and down in each submenu. You can also add separators to group items. Alacarte allows you to easily customize the main menu in Linux Mint to your reflect the way you work.

Use i3status-title-on-bar to inject the active window title into the output of i3status as soon as it is updated.

• Supports i3bar JSON output format from i3status
• Adds active window title information into normal i3status output
• Detects when the active window title information changes and signals the i3status process to update immediately
• Customize the color, width, and position of the window title information to display

Release binaries are available for linux/amd64 , linux/arm (v5), and linux/arm64 . Open an issue if there is interest in binaries for other platforms.

Drop the binary into your path, such as /usr/local/bin :

By default, the i3 bar configuration usually looks something like this (with i3status set as the process that periodically generates i3 bar formatted JSON):

This bit of configuration is where we’ll add i3status-title-on-bar . Here is how to pipe the i3 bar formatted output from i3status into i3status-title-on-bar with a custom color:

Here is the full usage of i3status-title-on-bar from –help :

Because i3status relies on a user configurable polling mechanism (intentionally, to reduce unnecessary system calls) when generating content for the i3 bar, it needs to be notified that an update should occur sooner than the next scheduled wakeup. Without notification, adding the window title to the produced JSON from i3status has a variable delay in displaying that depends on the polling interval. This is most noticeable when switching tabs in a browser or text editor where the window title changes based on the active tab but the update to the window title doesn’t happen immediately and instead appears to lag behind until i3status finally wakes up. Here is a crude diagram of how i3status-title-on-bar is affected by i3status ‘s sleep:

With the addition of this commit, we can force i3status to wake up immediately by sending a USR1 signal to the running i3status process id. Thus, we add another subsystem to i3status-title-on-bar to listen for window title changes and signal i3status when an update occurs. Here is another crude diagram:

With these two systems in place, we can reliably update the window title when it changes and display it in the i3 bar.

However, what happens when some process decides it wants to update its own window title constantly all the time triggering constant and very frequent updates to i3status ? I’ve attempted to mitigate this behavior by sampling window title changes as they are detected instead of passing them through directly. An update signal to i3status is only sent at a max rate of every 100 milliseconds instead of every time a window title property change occurs (that number comes from here). This minimizes the USR1 signal sending to i3status which forces an update to everything it may be polling.

Set up a go 1.15 development environment. There are many “valid” or “right” or “idiomatic” ways of doing this. Find the one that works for you that lets you compile and run go code.

Here’s what I do to maintain a single isolated project in a single isolated workspace after cloning this git repository:

An example of the contents of this project’s .source_me can be found in .source_me_example. Modify it to suit your needs if you want or use your current go development setup.

The Makefile contains a help target that displays the following:

i3status-title-on-bar is released under version 2.0 of the Apache License.

We’re expecting the release of Linux Mint 19.1 to arrive just before the Christmas holidays and, like your nearest and dearest, it’ll be bringing a few surprises with it.

The Linux 19.1 release will include the Cinnamon 4.0 desktop environment by default and this, Mint’s devs say, will “look more modern” than it does now.

How? By using a new panel layout.

Linux Mint 19.1: New Desktop Layout

The current default desktop layout in Cinnamon hasn’t changed much in years. There’s a thin panel stripped across the bottom of the desktop housing a menu (on the left), a traditional Windows XP-style windows list in the center, and a system tray in the corner.

It’s a set up that clearly works given the relative popularity of both Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop within the Linux distro ecosystem.

But Mint think it’s time for a change.

The distro’s developer learnt that many of its users were opting to replace the standard window list applet with a third-party window list applet. Why? To get modern features like window grouping and window previews on the Cinnamon desktop.

Presently, Mint panel adds a separate task list entry for each app window open, regardless of how many are.

But that’s changing.

Linux Mint acknowledge that the old way of working is no longer the ‘norm’ for users of other desktops, including Windows, macOS and Ubuntu, many of whom make the switch to Linux Mint and expect something similar.

So the distro is shipping a new “modern” desktop panel layout with Cinnamon 4.0 with the following changes:

• Larger panel with 40px icons
• Windows are grouped by application
• System tray uses smaller 24px icons

Mint devs forked the popular ‘Icing Task Manager‘ applet (see image below) and baked its core features directly into Cinnamon itself.

Configuration options for the new panel will be available in the “Panel” settings pane, including options to set individual icon size for each ‘zone’ of the panel, and adjust the overall panel height.

The addition of the new panel layout does not affect the ability to add or move panels around the Cinnamon desktop.

To bring the visual design up-to-par the Mint-Y-Dark theme will is to become the default Cinnamon theme in Linux Mint, though the regular hued version (and the older Mint-X theme) remains available as an option.

“This new look, along with the new workflow defined by the grouped window list, make Cinnamon feel much more modern than before,” they say of the changes.

The old layout is just a click away

Should anyone not like the new look — and given how subjective personal computing can be, many won’t — Linux Mint 19.1 will let users ‘click a button to make Cinnamon look just like it did before’ — a reassuring decision, I think.

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ziggy42 commented Oct 24, 2017

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The ability to hide the menu bar (as you can do in other apps, like Visual Studio Code) would be great.
GTK3 apps don’t use menu bars, so in GNOME the look could be better:

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j-f1 commented Oct 24, 2017

GitHub Desktop creates its own menubar on Windows. I wonder if we should do the same on Linux.

shiftkey commented Oct 24, 2017

I guess we’re not clear on what fits with the platform.

For reference, on Windows we run it in frameless mode (hiding the window frame and the default menu):

Lines 57 to 59 in d4893c7

> else if ( __WIN32__ )

windowOptions . frame = false

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Then we render a menu written in HTML/JS/CSS – this also draws the minimize/maximize/close buttons in the top-right which would exist with the default window frame.

Happy to add additional insight into what we’re doing here, if someone is keen to figure what makes sense for Linux users.

ziggy42 commented Oct 25, 2017 •

Honestly I don’t think that would work well on Linux.
Just to pick GNOME as an example, by default you have only the close button in the right corner. But you can move the corner and add minimize or maximize.

Having one custom menubar that looks well on every Linux DE, or even just the most popular ones, would be very difficult. Even for GNOME, you have different distributions shipping different themes by default.

I wouldn’t mind to just show/hide the menubar like vscode and slack do. Also because I tend to use keyboard shortcuts anyway 😄

ziggy42 commented Oct 25, 2017

shiftkey commented Oct 25, 2017

I wouldn’t mind to just show/hide the menubar like vscode and slack do.

For reference, Toggle Menu bar is under the View menu:

You’ll then see this message:

And it now looks like this:

shiftkey commented Oct 25, 2017

I’m going to mark this as help wanted and add some guidance here for someone who wants to dig into this:

• we can probably see what VSCode does here, if someone wants to go digging into how they control Electron
• app-window is where we set the Electron options for the window, and handle some events
• build-default-menu.ts is how we build the menu – we’ll need a new entry here for Toggle Menu Bar that acts like a checkbox.

I’m not sure what events we need to propagate around, but I’m happy to look at some code and help figure this out.

ziggy42 commented Oct 27, 2017

This can be done really easily with this API.

But I’m not sure how to notify the user like code does.

shiftkey commented Nov 7, 2017 •

But I’m not sure how to notify the user like code does.

The closest thing I can think of is our zoom indicator, which displays in the center of the screen:

We might be able to repurpose some of it. I’ll add needs-design-input here to get some UX feedback whenever they have bandwidth – let’s not hold up the rest of the work in the meantime.

EDIT: nevermind, let’s assume that’s fine enough and we can talk about this as part of the review process

How to Edit the Mint Menu

The Mint Menu is the hub of Linux Mint and one of the best features of the desktop environment. Not only is it a one-stop place to find apps quickly, it’s also a place where you can search for folders and configure to a remarkably high degree.

MAKE YOUR OWN MENU

As with most other aspects of Mint, you can configure, tweak and personalize the Menu to suit your own tastes. Fancy changing the icon? Calling it something else? What about adding another category?

The Mint Menu looks pretty good out of the box. It’s a clean interface, easy to read and understand, and you can easily get to the many applications and areas features in Linux Mint. On the whole, it’s a well designed and user-friendly feature.

To personalize and tweak the Menu, start by right- clicking it and selecting Configure from the available options. This launches the Menu console window, with two available tabs: Panel and Menu.

Starting with the Panel tab, you have the option to change the current Mint Menu icon to a custom image. Click the ‘Use a custom icon’ slider to the On position, then click the cog icon in the Icon section to navigate to an image. This will immediately change the Menu icon image.

While still in the Appearance section of the Panel tab, you can not only change the Menu icon image but actually call the Menu something else. In the Text section, delete the word Menu and name it Start, for example.

The Behavior section will allow you to define a keyboard shortcut to open and close the Menu. The default is perfectly fine but if you do want to change it, click the action and press the desired keyboard combinations. Here we’ve changed ours to Super (the Windows Key) + Ctrl + R.

The remainder of the Panel tab features the option to open the Menu when the mouse pointer hovers over it, as opposed to clicking the Menu, along with the hover over delay. You can also opt for Menu animations that gradually roll up the Menu when clicked instead of instantly launching.

Moving on, the Menu tab has a couple of sections where the options within are already enabled by default. These include displaying the Menu category items, showing the Favourites and Session options in the Menu, Bookmarks and so on. It’s all fairly self- explanatory, so let’s take a look at the ‘Open the menu editor’ button.

The menu editor is an interesting sub-console window that pops up. In here you’re able to further define the categories and contents the Menu offers when you click it open. You can see two columns with a set of controls down the right-hand side. The left column features the categories and the right column the contents of each category.

For example, the Programming category isn’t on the Menu by default, yet it’s here in the list of categories. Click Programming in the left-hand column; now the right-hand column will display two entries: Python v2.7 and 3.5. Tick the box next to Python (v2.7) and click the Menu. You can now see that Programming is listed and present.

From the menu editor, you’re able to create new ^ Menu categories, move existing categories and include apps that aren’t in the Menu by default. It’s worth having a look around and seeing what you can do. If you mess something up, click the Restore System Configuration button to restore the default Menu layout.

You decided to try Ubuntu 20.04 and the Gnome desktop environment that comes with it. You feel, though, that Gnome’s top bar and side panel are always in the way and would prefer your apps to take up the whole screen. Learn how you can hide the top bar and side panel in Ubuntu 20.04.

Also read: Ubuntu 20.04 Review: ZFS, Snap Store and Faster Desktop

Hide the Side Panel (Dock)

Press the Win key on your keyboard and type “dock” to filter the app list down to the sub-page you need in “Appearance Settings.” Select the Settings entry that appears to open that page.

Enable the toggle next to “Auto-hide the Dock.”

Hide the Top Bar in Ubuntu

Open your browser and visit Gnome’s Extensions page. Click on “Click here to install browser extension” to install an add-on to Firefox that will in turn enable one-click installation of extensions to your Gnome desktop.

When Firefox asks you if you want to allow the site to install an add-on, click “Continue to Installation.”

Do the same for the pop-ups that follow, first asking if you want to “Add GNOME Shell Integration?” Click on “Add,” and it then informs you, “GNOME Shell Integration has been added to Firefox.” Click “Okay, Got It.”

There’s a search field under the link you used to install the GNOME Shell Integration extension in the previous step. Click in it and type “hide top bar” to find the Gnome extension you need.

Select the extension to visit its page. Apart from an extended description and the option to download it, you’ll also see a switch on the top right. Click on this switch to toggle it to “On” and install the extension.

Click on “Install” in the pop-up that will appear over the page.

That was it! You should now see that the top bar has disappeared (if your Firefox is in maximized mode).

Auto-hiding in action

Both elements of the desktop auto-hide based on the proximity of other windows. In our following screenshot, Firefox runs in windows mode and doesn’t need the space occupied by the Dock and Top Bar, so they remain visible.

As Firefox’s window is moved to the left, the dock will auto-hide when they overlap.

If you move the window towards the top, the same will happen with the top bar.

And if you move it to the top left, as the window approaches both, they’ll disappear. The same happens if you maximize a window, as you saw earlier.

With those tweaks, you can now use your whole screen for your apps without having to disable the Dock and top bar fully. You can also change your desktop icons in Gnome 3 to match your wallpaper.

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Mozilla Firefox is the default web browser in numerous Linux distributions. It is free and open-source software and the obvious choice when you don’t want to use Google’s privacy-invading Chrome browser.

If you open Firefox in Ubuntu or some other operating system, you will notice that it has an additional title bar at the top that displays the information about the active tab.

This feature could be useful to some people but for me, it is an annoyance. It takes up a few pixels of additional screen space and I don’t like it.

If you find it irritating as well, let me show you how to disable this additional title bar in Firefox and save the precious screen space.

How to remove title bar of Firefox browser

Getting rid of the title bar from Firefox is very easy and it can be done in two simple steps.

Step 1

In newer versions of Firefox, right click on the tab bar and choose Customize Toolbar.

In the older Firefox browser, click on the hamburger menu. Choose the customize option from this menu.

Step 2

Firefox opens the customization menu in a new tab. Move to this new Customize tab and look at the bottom. You’ll see Title Bar option checked.

You just need to uncheck this Title Bar option. That’s it.

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You’ll notice that title bar disappears immediately. No need to even restart the browser.

You can enjoy the open source Firefox browser with more screen space now.

I know it’s not really a big issue but small things sometimes make big difference. Firefox gives the option to customize everything to your liking and you can tweak the look and feel as per your requirement.

For example, you can enable backspace for going back in Firefox or even enable dark mode. There is no end to tweaking Firefox.

I hope you find this quick Firefox tip helpful. If you have any suggestions or questions, feel free to ask in the comment section.

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#1 jfruch1

After going through the entire install with no problem, I restart as per screen instruction. But Linux Mint has been dumped. No sign of it anywhere. No grub screen,nothing. PC restarts right back into Windows 10 as if nothing had been changed.

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#2 buddy215

Hmmmm. have you ever successfully installed a dual boot of Windows and a Linux distro?

How many hdds are there installed on the computer?

Were any drives other than the one used to install Linux connected to the computer?

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#3 jfruch1

Hmmmm. have you ever successfully installed a dual boot of Windows and a Linux distro?

How many hdds are there installed on the computer?

Were any drives other than the one used to install Linux connected to the computer?

Installed several versions over the years. Just the last few years I wasn’t using it. I was Education Director for a big computer club here in Florida *500+ members” and had to use MS programs constantly so didn’t bother installing on my new computer. I’m no longer on the board there and want to get back into Linux.

Single hdd on this computer.

Edited by jfruch1, 27 September 2020 – 11:11 AM.

#4 pcpunk

What do you see in Disk Management? Do you see the extra Linux partitions?

Is this a UEFI based computer?

Determine if disk is MBR or GPT-UEFI

Open Command Prompt and type these commands. Diskpart will take a few seconds to open.

If there is an asterisk under the GPT column for your boot disk then your partition table is GPT and therefore is in UEFI Mode.

If I don’t reply right away it’s because I’m waiting for Windows 10 to Update.

#5 jfruch1

What do you see in Disk Management? Do you see the extra Linux partitions?

Is this a UEFI based computer?

Determine if disk is MBR or GPT-UEFI

Open Command Prompt and type these commands. Diskpart will take a few seconds to open.

If there is an asterisk under the GPT column for your boot disk then your partition table is GPT and therefore is in UEFI Mode.

Yep! Asterisk is there

#6 pcpunk

Don’t make me work to hard What do you see in disk management? We are trying to determine if you installed linux and it just won’t boot.

If I don’t reply right away it’s because I’m waiting for Windows 10 to Update.

#7 jfruch1

Don’t make me work to hard What do you see in disk management? We are trying to determine if you installed linux and it just won’t boot.

Ha ha! First place I looked. It’s empty.

#8 pcpunk

Empty, you mean you don’t see the Linux Partitions there but you do see Windows partitions? Right Click on Menu and then click on Disk Management right? If you are not certain take a pic and post it. We need to be certain of this.

How did you create your install medium? Important, it will need to be created as UEFI-GPT as that is what your partition scheme is.

Edited by pcpunk, 27 September 2020 – 02:16 PM.

If I don’t reply right away it’s because I’m waiting for Windows 10 to Update.

#9 pcpunk

Did you make space out of your C Drive to install linux too?

Did you place the bootloader on the EFI Partition?

If I don’t reply right away it’s because I’m waiting for Windows 10 to Update.

#10 jfruch1

Did you make space out of your C Drive to install linux too?

Did you place the bootloader on the EFI Partition?

I’m trying to post a pic but I’m getting error message about the image extension. Not allowed here. I created a partition for Linux. Don’t understand what you mean about the EFI partition.

Edited by jfruch1, 27 September 2020 – 02:56 PM.

#11 Chris Cosgrove

A win 10 install creates four partitons on the hard drive it is installed on, these are – reading from left to right in Disk management – Recovery, typically 500 MB; a small hidden partition, typically 16MB; EFI partition, typically 100MB; and the rest of the drive a single partition for the OS, programs, data and anything else you might want to put on it. I have a 500GB SSD on which I have both Win 10 and Mint, the partitions are as follow –

Recovery (499MB); Hidden; EFI (100MB), C:\ (367GB); Root (Mint) (47GB); Home (Mint) (51GB)

When you do a dual boot install it is a very good idea to disconnect any hard drives other than he one you want to put Linux, I didn’t do this the first time I tried setting it up and accidentally formatted a 500GB drive full of data !

Then you need to shrink the C:\ parition by the amount you wish to dedicate to Linux, you do this in Disk Management. You can then either create a partition each for Root and Home (plus if you want, a small one for Swap) or just leave this space void and set up the Linux partitions in this space when doing the Linux install. I don’t think it matters.

But any way, that’s what and where the EFI partion is. If I remember right that’s the default location for the Grub boot loader in any case. Hope this helps.

Edited by Chris Cosgrove, 27 September 2020 – 05:14 PM.

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My Menu Bar disappeared

Doug E Fresh 24 Jul 2010

I was messing around trying to switch the dock off and when I did it made my menu bars go, too. I also (stupidly) un-clicked start on login so idk how to get it back. I got lucky and had a file browser open, found terminal so that I could launch firefox, otherwise I’d be staring at a blank desktop still.

I’m running Ubuntu 10 64-bit. I think the dock was called Avant or something, if that’s even relevant. Please help, thanks.

buddy215 24 Jul 2010

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jpshortstuff 25 Jul 2010

Although its not a complete fix, a workaround may be to add gnome-panel as an autostart program.

System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications
Click Add, and set Command to /usr/bin/gnome-panel

As I say, not a real fix for the original problem, but should make the symptoms go away.

cryptodan 25 Jul 2010

Doug E Fresh 25 Jul 2010

Thanks for the suggestions. Oddly enough, when I started my computer this morning the menu bar and dock were back. Pretty strange. If it goes all Casper on me again, I’ll try one of those.

I have to say, since I updated a few days ago to Ubuntu 10 I’ve had nothing but problems. I can’t get my monitors to configure correctly–keeps telling me to restart the X server. I did, no dice. At least I think I did going by suggestions I found while searching. ctrl+alt+backspace Nothing actually happens when I do it, so idk if that’s normal or what.

Plus the performance is really choppy, and at times completely freezes for a few seconds at a time. There’s a few other minor bugs as well, but they’re all annoying nonetheless.

Mostly because before I updated this computer flew. Now it takes a lot longer to startup, shutdown, ect. Any suggestions as to why this may be, and what I can do to remedy it? Can I just roll back to version 9? Thanks for the help, everyone.

A while ago, we shared an article about Resetter – an application which is used to reset Ubuntu to factory defaults within a few minutes. Using Resetter, anyone can easily reset their Ubuntu system to the state when it is installed in the first time. Today, I stumbled upon a similar thing. No, It’s not an application, but a one-liner command to reset your Linux desktop settings, tweaks and customization to default state.

Reset Linux desktop to default settings

This command will reset Ubuntu Unity, Gnome and MATE desktops to the default state. I tested this command on both my Arch Linux MATE desktop and Ubuntu 16.04 Unity desktop. It worked on both systems. I hope it will work on other Linux desktops as well. I don’t have any Linux desktop with GNOME as of writing this, so I couldn’t confirm it. But, I believe it will work on Gnome DE as well.

A word of caution: Please be mindful that this command will reset all customization and tweaks you made in your system, including the pinned applications in the Unity launcher or Dock, desktop panel applets, desktop indicators, your system fonts, GTK themes, icon themes, monitor resolution, keyboard shortcuts, window button placement, menu and launcher behaviour etc.

Good thing is it will only reset the desktop settings. It won’t affect the other applications that doesn’t use dconf . Also, it won’t delete your personal data.

Now, let us do this. To reset Ubuntu Unity or any other Linux desktop with GNOME/MATE DEs to its default settings, run:

This is my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop before running the above command:

As you see, I have changed the desktop wallpaper and themes.

This is how my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS desktop turned out after running that command:

Look? Now, my Ubuntu desktop has gone to the factory settings.

For more details, refer “dconf” command’s man pages.

I personally prefer to use “Resetter” over “dconf” command for this purpose. Because, Resetter provides more options to the users. The users can decide which applications to remove, which applications to keep, whether to keep existing user account or create a new user and many. If you’re too lazy to install Resetter, you can just use this “dconf” command to reset your Linux system to default settings within a few minutes.