Hi. Running CentOS 5 with the default GNOME desktop. Is it possible to configure xterm windows not to have title bars to get the most out of the available screenspace?
I've tried to look this up but mostly find reference how to change the content of the title bar; I want to remove it completely.
Found a reference to Compiz but the version available through CentOS seems old (0.0.13 compared to the current around 0.8 or 0.9) and having a double zero version number, I was afraid to use it.
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Hi. Running CentOS 5 with the default GNOME desktop. Is it possible to configure xterm windows not to have title bars to get the most out of the available screenspace?
I don't know how to do it with Gnome but, with KDE 3, you can set up a shortcut to remove the window decorations on a per-window basis.
Found a reference to Compiz but the version available through CentOS seems old (0.0.13 compared to the current around 0.8 or 0.9) and having a double zero version number, I was afraid to use it.
If I remember correctly, Compiz was quite unstable at that time, but I may be wrong :)
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.tech@gmail.com wrote:
Hi. Running CentOS 5 with the default GNOME desktop. Is it possible to configure xterm windows not to have title bars to get the most out of the available screenspace?
I've tried to look this up but mostly find reference how to change the content of the title bar; I want to remove it completely.
Found a reference to Compiz but the version available through CentOS seems old (0.0.13 compared to the current around 0.8 or 0.9) and having a double zero version number, I was afraid to use it.
For an Xterm you'd use an .Xresources file then install with xrdb. The xterm man page should have the relevant entries.
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.tech@gmail.com wrote:
Hi. Running CentOS 5 with the default GNOME desktop. Is it possible to configure xterm windows not to have title bars to get the most out of the available screenspace?
The presence and appearance of title bars (except for the text content) are controlled by the window manager, not by the application framed in the window. In the case of the standard Gnome desktop, that application is "metacity". So you need to look for how to configure title bars in metacity, not for title bars of xterm.
I don't know if it's possible to arrange for only a particular application's windows to omit the title bars. There's a general theme tutorial here:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/metacity/metacity-themes.html
On 18/12/10 13:37, Bart Schaefer wrote:
The presence and appearance of title bars (except for the text content) are controlled by the window manager, not by the application framed in the window. In the case of the standard Gnome desktop, that application is "metacity". So you need to look for how to configure title bars in metacity, not for title bars of xterm.
For GNOME you can use Devilspie to do some additional window management stuff that metacity omits, like window placement and decoration. Been a while since I've used it, but you may be able to coerce it to do what you want.
Kal
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