How can I disable CSD (client side decorations)?

[Olivier Fourdan]

Quite frankly, it's a case of don't do that.

CSD is not just about decorations, it's an entire UI design. If you
don't want apps using CSD, simply use other apps.

xfce 4.12 has all the required bits to properly support CSD in gtk+
and crippling the WM to avoid CSD is just plain wrong.

Cheers,
Olivier




On 16 June 2016 at 08:43, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Steve Dodier-Lazaro <sidi at xfce.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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/
>>
>
> Nice pointer, thanks. I'm wondering why not put more effort in
> supporting Xfce apps, like Mousepad or Parole, since they're basically
> following the same philosophy... Among other things, they're
> essentially desktop- and distro-agnostic and follow much of the
> traditional Gnome (pre-3.0) layout. This way it feels like effort
> duplication. For PDF there is ePDFView, but that one needs a lot of
> love. For images, there is Mirage and Ristretto, etc.
>
> Liviu
>
>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Klaus
>>>
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