Friday, September 07, 2012

Gnome 3: Smaller title bars on Metacity

Been using the T410 non stop for the last 10 days or so. With the maxxed RAM it makes a magnificent machine.
Gnome Shell Remix -that is, Gnome 3- flies on it, when it comes to Linux, everything works A Ok on the laptop, software or hardware wise... It has only two drawbacks, the screen sucks, really, really sucks; and the speakers are weak, and I mean really, but, really weak.
Besides that, the screen only has 1280x800, so it gets kind cramped sometimes...

I've modified a bit the default Metacity theme, reducing the title bar size, which originally its gigantic, BTW...
On the file "/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml", edited the lines:

On frame_geometry name="normal":
<!--    <distance name="title_vertical_pad" value="9"/> -->
        <distance name="title_vertical_pad" value="5"/>
And on frame_geometry name="max":
<!--   <distance name="title_vertical_pad" value="8"/>  -->
       <distance name="title_vertical_pad" value="4"/>
The result of this can be seen on the latest screenshot.
I've done something similar in the past, but that was for the Metacity theme used on the Fallback Mode.

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4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

many many many many tnx
I was banging my head to figure out how to reduce it

12:31 PM  
Blogger hictio said...

Glad it was useful.

1:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

thanks I finally managed to successfully reduce the title bar and have gained space on the screen of EEPC thanks

12:34 PM  
Blogger hictio said...

Glad it helped :D

1:02 PM  

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