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Maniaxx

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Registered: 2014-05-14

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[SOLVED]XFCE - Undecorate windows (borderless)

Hallo,
i want to have a VLC window borderless (undecorated) on XFCE/xfwm4. VLC has an own option '--no-video-deco' but it has no effect. I also tried this (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192422) but it doesn't work either. 'wmctrl' also doesn't seem to support this function.

Any ideas how to undecorate windows on xfce/xfwm4?

Last edited by Maniaxx (2018-03-29 22:36:38)

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dockland

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Registered: 2015-06-06

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Re: [SOLVED]XFCE - Undecorate windows (borderless)

Does "--no-video-deco --no-embedded-video" work?

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archimboldo

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Re: [SOLVED]XFCE - Undecorate windows (borderless)

Well this works for all windows , though i'm not sure that's what you want.

mkdir -p /usr/share/themes/empty/xfwm4/
touch /usr/share/themes/empty/xfwm4/themerc

Then select empty in Window Manager.

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Maniaxx

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Registered: 2014-05-14

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Re: [SOLVED]XFCE - Undecorate windows (borderless)

Does "--no-video-deco --no-embedded-video" work?

No, doesn't work.

Well this works for all windows

Maybe i can assign this with GTK_THEME= to one window only. Will test it.

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toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: [SOLVED]XFCE - Undecorate windows (borderless)

You can use devilspie and a vlc.ds file like this:

(if (is (application_name) "VLC media player")
        (begin
                (undecorate)
        )
)

Maniaxx

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Registered: 2014-05-14

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Re: [SOLVED]XFCE - Undecorate windows (borderless)

There are even more severe bugs in VLC that makes it unusable in the end. It doesn't shutdown gracefully (hangs) with '-I dummy' (or cvlc binary) on my system. Tells me stuff about xcb x11 errors, vdpau and whatsoever (when closing!). So i tried mplayer and what can i say... it works out of the box without problems (mplayer -noborder video.mp4).

Thanks!

Last edited by Maniaxx (2018-03-29 22:38:53)

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