How can I disable CSD (client side decorations)?

Steve Dodier-Lazaro sidi at xfce.org
Thu Jun 16 00:23:16 CEST 2016


On 15 June 2016 at 23:17, Klaus Zeitler <info at klauszeitler.de> wrote:

> I think you talk about gtk3-nocsd: https://github.com/PCMan/gtk3-nocsd
>

Indeed. Thanks for finding it for me.



> I wonder, if the GTK developers plan on adding something, that will
> allow the user to turn on/off CSD.


I understand why they don't. They do rely a lot on the headerbars now, and
their apps do look slightly sub-optimal with a headerbar *and* an external
decoration. I have my personal reasons to prefer SSD too, but I understand
why they don't leave us the choice.


> If not, then maybe the simplest
> solution is just to replace eog, evince etc. with similar applications.
>

Good news. Someone is doing just that:
http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2016/02/the-first-two-x-apps-are-ready/


>
> Thanks
>
> Klaus
>
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