gnome on foosel.nethttps://foosel.net/tags/gnome/Recent content in gnome on foosel.netHugoen-usGina Häußge (foosel)Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000How to reduce the titlebar size of Gnome 43https://foosel.net/til/2023-04-11-how-to-reduce-the-titlebar-size-of-gnome/Tue, 11 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://foosel.net/til/2023-04-11-how-to-reduce-the-titlebar-size-of-gnome/<p>A few weeks ago I switched back to Linux as my primary OS, on a newly acquired refurbished <a href="https://frame.work">Framework Laptop 11</a>, and one thing that&rsquo;s since been bothering me on my chosen desktop environment Gnome<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> has been the HUGE titlebars:</p> <p><img alt="Before: A quite tall title bar with a lot of padding, wasting space" loading="lazy" src="https://foosel.net/til/2023-04-11-how-to-reduce-the-titlebar-size-of-gnome/before.png"></p> <p>So I finally dug into solving this quickly, and came across <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/y61xhm/comment/ivay6db/">this post on Reddit</a> with a quite nice solution. I modified <code>~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css</code> and added the following contents:</p>A few weeks ago I switched back to Linux as my primary OS, on a newly acquired refurbished Framework Laptop 11, and one thing that’s since been bothering me on my chosen desktop environment Gnome1 has been the HUGE titlebars:

Before: A quite tall title bar with a lot of padding, wasting space

So I finally dug into solving this quickly, and came across this post on Reddit with a quite nice solution. I modified ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and added the following contents:

window.ssd headerbar.titlebar {
    padding-top: 2px;
    padding-bottom: 2px;
    min-height: 0;
}
window.ssd headerbar.titlebar button.titlebutton {
    padding: 1px;
    min-height: 0;
    min-width: 0;
}

That resulted in this:

After: The title bar reduced to the bare minimum in height, with only a minimal amount of padding, no more wasting space

And now I’m happy, at least with non-Gnome apps, my chosen development environment VSCode included.

Update 2023-04-30: Alas, that no longer works under Gnome 44, so for now I’m stuck with oversized titlebars again.

  1. Currently Gnome 43.3 running under Wayland on Fedora Workstation 37 ↩︎

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