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Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

Posted Feb 9, 2013 0:27 UTC (Sat) by mordae (subscriber, #54701)
Parent article: Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

Since N900 and GNOME 3 both came up with expose function where windows get little Xes for closing, I am looking forward to removing the top portion of decorations completely and getting more space. Is that sane?


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Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

Posted Feb 9, 2013 3:56 UTC (Sat) by Sho (subscriber, #8956) [Link]

You can configure that in KDE right now (the standard window decoration allows you to reduce the title bar to a pure border, and the Expose-like Present Windows effect has window close button overlays on the scaled windows). Example: http://wstaw.org/m/2013/02/09/plasma-desktopmh1137.png

Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

Posted Feb 9, 2013 3:57 UTC (Sat) by Sho (subscriber, #8956) [Link]

I should add that the Oxygen style engine also enables a "drag windows from empty areas" behavior by default, which comes in handy in this context (e.g. you can drag that window from the empty space to the left of the menu bar items or the status bar and similar, although Alt+Drag works anywhere in the window anyway of course).

Gräßlin: Client Side Window Decorations and Wayland

Posted Feb 9, 2013 10:41 UTC (Sat) by mgraesslin (subscriber, #78959) [Link]

and if you use the option "No Side Border" or "No Border" a resize overlay is added (since 4.10), so that you can still resize the window without needing a resize button. Of course Alt+RMB also works.

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