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On Linux if you learn shortcuts for close/minimise/maximise as well, you can even remove window borders and title bars entirely. It's free screen real estate.
by Nition 8mo ago
On Linux if you learn shortcuts for close/minimise/maximise as well, you can even remove window borders and title bars entirely. It's free screen real estate.
- sigmoid10 8mo agoThe gnome window title bars are obnoxiously thick and useless by default tho. I've found that Unity or even just Windows like styling in Gnome is a lot more respectful to your screen real estate.
- user2722 8mo agoIt definitely needs improvement but for touchscreens it is good.
- prmoustache 8mo agoThat is a tradeoff that makes it nice when you have a convertible laptop. I wish it was simply configurable from the settings dialogs.
- vladvasiliu 8mo agoCould it switch? I think windows has a “tablet mode” which activates when you “convert” your laptop. Not sure how well it works in practice, though.
- prmoustache 8mo agoI honestly don't know if there is a standardized way to pass the information or if it depends on the brand. I remember in the earlier version of gnome I had on my lenovo yoga the visual keyboard would popup on most text box but not on firefox which obliged me tolo use Gnome Web / epiphany when in tablet mode but they sorted it out later. I think there wasn't a tablet mode per se but I had used gnome tweak or an extension to have the accesibility options easy to access and enable the visual keyboard but it may have been mpre automatic later. I am saying all this out of memory because that computer died 2 years ago and I didn't use the tablet mode enough to replace it with similar one.
- vladvasiliu 8mo agoIs firefox actually fully integrated with gnome/gtk, or does it rely on some form of adaptor? I've recently installed kde on one of my laptops (I usually use i3) and firefox is pretty wonky there. For example, with the OOB configuration, if I double click the top border of a window, it will maximize vertically. Firefox seems to ignore that. It does fully maximize if I double click the title bar, though.
- ahartmetz 8mo agoRight and middle clicking the maximize button maximize horizontally and vertically with KWin and that does work with Firefox. Hard to say which part is to blame with i3 + Firefox. But it's not that Firefix needs Gnome.
- 1718627440 8mo agoI like the Gnome 2 title bars (Mate). Gnome wasn't always that bad.
- philipallstar 8mo agoYes, Gnome looks very odd because of that.
- Rygian 8mo agoThe AltDrag tool on Windows includes Super+double click to maximize/restore. I find it surprising that this does not come by default on KDE.
- noughtnaut 8mo ago"AltSnap" is a continuation of AltDrag that's better on Windows 11. It is instrumental in making me loathe Windows 11 _ever so slightly_ less. https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap https://github.com/RamonUnch/AltSnap
- jraph 8mo agoI drag the window to the top for this. On KDE there's also a (configurable) keyboard shortcut (Meta + prev page, TIL, might start doing this now).
- Fluorescence 8mo agoIt's my preference too. What do you use? I used to use "GTK Title Bar" gnome extension which was abandoned a few versions ago so had to write my own and it's X11 specific. The one drawback is that when windows are reopened, they are offset by the title bar height i.e. it messes up whatever is tracking the size/offset/location. Anyone have other ways to do this in gnome and do they work on wayland too?
- Nition 8mo agoI'm on Fedora KDE so won't be much help to you, but there is a "Windows Rules" section in the system settings where I've added a rule that applies to all windows with the property "No titlebar and frame". Actually I'd quite like frame just with no titlebar, but that's not an option.
- pjmlp 8mo agoDepends on the window manager.
- GuinansEyebrows 8mo ago> It's free screen real estate. jim, does it get any better than this?