How to remove title bar on selected applications?

[Heinrich Rebehn]

Chris Green wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:37:16AM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> 
>>Chris Green wrote:
>>
>>>Is it possible with xfce to run some applications with no title bar
>>>etc.?  It's possible in CDE and I want to run a clock application on
>>>my xfce desktop in the same way that I do on CDE, it looks silly with
>>>a title and buttons etc. which are much too large for the size of the
>>>clock.
>>>
>>
>>This is quite easy with the sawfish window manager. It has a nice gui
>>which lets you can specify decoration, position, desktop etc for every
>>window.
>>
> 
> I.e. like CDE!  :-)
> 
> Does sawfish work happily with xfce?  Do I just need to replace xfwm4
> with the sawfish executable?
> 
It does. I have been using sawfish for several years now, first with
Gnome and now (for 6 months) with xfce.
To start it, just

$ killall xfwm4 && sawfish &

To get it permanent, save session upon logout.

Note that i never cared about predefined keyboard shortcuts, though.
You may have to define the xfce specific shortcuts yourself. But that
should not be a problem using the sawfish gui.

--Heinrich

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