[SOLVED] XFCE4 maximised windows no decoration

Roken · 2018-08-13 19:55:26

Honestly, I've hunted and I'm drawing a blank. My desktop machine is just peachy, and does what it should.

On my laptop, full screen windows no longer have window decorations. I've even tried moving ~/.config/xfce4 out of the way and starting afresh, with no joy.

Using xfwm on both. Even tried copying ~/.config/xfce4 from my desktop to laptop, which just made things worse (slowed to a crawl and when the full screen terminal eventually released the scaling of everything in it was screwed). Now I'm back to a facsimile of my original config created from scratch - no messing with text files, but I'm stumped. How do I get window decorations in full screen.

For info, I tried changing

<property name="borderless_maximise" type="bool" value="true"/>

in xfwm4.xml to false with no change, and I'm at a loss where else to look.

Last edited by Roken (2018-08-21 19:58:07)

seth · 2018-08-13 22:02:28

Fullscreen windows are typically *never* decorated.
About maximized windows, did you see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xf … _maximized ?
Why was the borderless thing enabled itfp? Did you install the mentioned plugin?

Roken · 2018-08-14 04:54:35

Apologies, I did mean maximised. Topic edited.

"Hide title of windows when maximized" is already unchecked. I tried toggling, but to no effect.

brebs · 2018-08-14 06:31:27

Are you running e.g. compton or devilspie2, which could be mucking about with the window decoration?

Roken · 2018-08-14 19:17:57

I did have compton running (I don't have devilspie) but even after disabling and rebooting, the same problem. I'm honestly completely baffled by this. And GUI issues don;t usually stump me.

seth · 2018-08-14 19:55:41

Compare "xprop" of the client when maximized and when not - maybe it's not the WM, but the client (toolkit) disabling the titlebar (perhaps through MWM hints)

Roken · 2018-08-21 20:01:57

I am so ashamed. The monitor settings (as in, the hardware settings) were cutting off the window decorations very precisely. Nothing to do with Arch at all. I told the monitor itself to re-adjust.

It was so precise I couldn't see it.

Reset the monitor itself, and fixed.

headkase · 2018-08-21 20:28:30

Roken wrote:

I am so ashamed. The monitor settings (as in, the hardware settings) were cutting off the window decorations very precisely. Nothing to do with Arch at all. I told the monitor itself to re-adjust.
It was so precise I couldn't see it.
Reset the monitor itself, and fixed.

That's awesome. Don't be ashamed, it's epic.

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[SOLVED] XFCE4 maximised windows no decoration

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