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tsdh

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-01-07

Posts: 55

Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

Gnome3 always shipped with these super-huge vertically padded title bars which waste a lot of real screen estate.
Until GNOME 3.16, one could reduce that padding as documented in the Arch Wiki at:

  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GN … bar_height

However, with 3.16 GNOME has switched to GTK theming with CSS, and there's no

/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml

anymore.

Does anyone know how I can reduce the titlebars' heights to some sane value again?

Thanks!

biziwalker

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Registered: 2015-04-11

Posts: 1

Re: Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

I think it's help you: branch on reddit

muhammedabuali

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Registered: 2015-04-11

Posts: 3

Re: Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

this might work for you.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/844/maximus-two/

tsdh

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-01-07

Posts: 55

Re: Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

@biziwalker: Do I read that correctly that I would need to write my own stylesheet, i.e., define and maintain a completely new theme (by copying the existing) CSS files from https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/ … me/Adwaita?  Gosh, then I think I'll wait until someone comes up with a Adwaita-Slim theme...

@muhammedabuali: That only deactivates the title bars completely in maximized windows.  Not bad, but I want smaller title bars also for windows that aren't maximized.

horst3180

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Registered: 2015-04-11

Posts: 3

Re: Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

Create ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css with the following content and restart the shell.

.header-bar.default-decoration {
    padding-top: 3px;
    padding-bottom: 3px;
}

.header-bar.default-decoration .button.titlebutton {
    padding-top: 2px;
    padding-bottom: 2px;
}

You can increase or decrease the padding as you like.

I made a similar post here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 8#p1518698 on how to restore the old window decoration style, that might be useful too.

Last edited by horst3180 (2015-04-11 12:53:36)

tsdh

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-01-07

Posts: 55

Re: Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

@horst3180: Awesome, that does the trick.  Well, even with 0px padding I don't consired the tilebar slim but at least usable again.

Thanks a ton!

Trevelian

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Registered: 2015-04-11

Posts: 2

Re: Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

@horst3180: Hello, i just register on the forum to say :  thank you !

kjozsa

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Registered: 2008-06-05

Posts: 147

Re: Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

@horst3180: you saved the day, thank you!

On a side note, while I realize something looking good or usable is a highly subjective topic but I have no idea how Gnome 3.16 could ship with such a default setting

Netpilgrim

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Registered: 2014-02-28

Posts: 11

Re: Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

this might work for you.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/844/maximus-two/

It does not seem to work with Gnome 3.16.

muhammedabuali

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Registered: 2015-04-11

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Re: Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

@Netpilgrim

it works for me after disabling the version validation

Netpilgrim

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Registered: 2014-02-28

Posts: 11

Re: Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

it works for me after disabling the version validation

Could you tell me how to do that?

COWBOYCAMILO

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Registered: 2015-04-23

Posts: 2

Re: Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

To get maximus2 in gnome 3.16 do:

gedit ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/maximus-two\@wilfinitlike.gmail.com/metadata.json

there, add "3.16" to the list of versions, you'll see: 3.12, 3.13, etc.
Save and restart gnome-shell
Cheers.

mrlamud

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Registered: 2014-09-27

Posts: 105

Re: Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

@horst3180 . Thank you.

Last edited by mrlamud (2015-04-24 11:06:26)

Netpilgrim

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Registered: 2014-02-28

Posts: 11

Re: Reducing the titlebar height in GNOME 3.16

To get maximus2 in gnome 3.16 do:

gedit ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/maximus-two\@wilfinitlike.gmail.com/metadata.json

there, add "3.16" to the list of versions, you'll see: 3.12, 3.13, etc.
Save and restart gnome-shell
Cheers.

Thanks for the tip.

There is also a version that already includes this fix, provided by Michael Tunnell for download here.