GNU bug report logs - #31968
26.1.50; Allow to hide title bar on maximize (gtk/gnome/csd)

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Message #59 received at 31968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>, 
 Jonathan Kyle Mitchell <kyle <at> jonathanmitchell.org>
Cc: 31968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#31968: 26.1.50;
 Allow to hide title bar on maximize (gtk/gnome/csd)
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 11:02:59 +0200

> Works for me too. I had to manually apply the patch because it doesn't
> cleanly applies on latest emacs-26, but besides that it does what is
> announced.

Thank you.  Which are your desktop and window manager?

> I think it's ok for this functionality to be gtk only since the kde
> people (and mostly everyone else) hate the csd stuff and want their wm
> to deal with decorations, old school. There is a flame war around this
> issue indeed. Plasma can be configured for "hide titlebar on maximize"

Does this apply to all windows even when their application has not
requested such behavior?

> but gnome and its derivatives (thinking of cinnamon here) can't. I
> wonder for how long it would be even possible to hide the titlebar at
> the gtk level.

IIUC it has been added in 3.4 so it will probably stay there for a
while.

martin

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