Getting rid of extra bars on a lot of windows | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

urban zodiac Oct 26, 2025, 3:28 AM

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A lot of windows have this annoying asf extra bar on top for no reason other than to take up space. Is there any way to remove it.

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talking about shit like this

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discord and nemo as examples

drowsy cobalt Oct 26, 2025, 3:47 AM

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what you refer to as "shit" has been a vital part of windows and Windows , for 40 damn years.

urban zodiac Oct 26, 2025, 3:48 AM

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what I'm referring to as shit is having duplicate bars

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example firefox has a setting to turn it off

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drowsy cobalt Oct 26, 2025, 3:49 AM

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u have one title bar per open window

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that's it.

urban zodiac Oct 26, 2025, 3:49 AM

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this is nice no need for another bar telling me FIREFOX with x on it

urban zodiac Oct 26, 2025, 3:49 AM

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drowsy cobalt u have one title bar per open window

that nemo has anothe rbar on top of an already existing nav bar

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it's a collosal waste of space

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no need to waste another bar saying HOME

drowsy cobalt Oct 26, 2025, 3:50 AM

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it's a titlebar. its function is to be able to doubleclick on to maximize/restore, OR to be able to drag from, in order to move a window

urban zodiac Oct 26, 2025, 3:51 AM

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which you can do from the sencond line

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and there's another on top for no reason

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other than to waste space

drowsy cobalt Oct 26, 2025, 3:52 AM

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see EXTENSIONS in settings

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may find some hide titlebars thing there

urban zodiac Oct 26, 2025, 3:54 AM

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I found cinnamon maximus but it doesn't work sadly

drowsy cobalt Oct 26, 2025, 3:56 AM

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may need to restart cinnamon or logout

urban zodiac Oct 26, 2025, 3:58 AM

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fair point I didn't try that

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shit

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if it wasn't obvious enough what I mean

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red=wasted area
yellow=already acts as a titlebar just need to move the x down

drowsy cobalt Oct 26, 2025, 4:15 AM

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did the maximus extension work?

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i've vaguely recalled it

urban zodiac Oct 26, 2025, 4:18 AM

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hold on was too busy with time one sec

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any idea how to reset cinnamon via terminal or do I have to restart

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oh

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alt f2 type r and enter

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cool also no it didn't work

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I'll try a restart

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nope

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I mean I get discord being fkn gay but at least nemo shouldn't have this bar

mild wave Oct 26, 2025, 6:55 AM

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urban zodiac I mean I get discord being fkn gay but at least nemo shouldn't have this bar

it's by design

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GNOME desktop completely removes these title bars, if you want.

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it's mostly hated because of that xD

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for discord, I've heard Vesktop app has an option to disable the titlebar

urban zodiac Oct 26, 2025, 7:37 AM

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cuz I totally know what any of these are

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isn't mint using gnome

urban zodiac Oct 26, 2025, 7:56 AM

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nvm

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figured what vesktop is

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and mint uses cinnamon that's a fork of gnome or smth like that

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either way cinnamon should have an option to remove the titlebar at least from nemo

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this is stupid

fresh dune Oct 27, 2025, 11:36 AM

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urban zodiac red=wasted area yellow=already acts as a titlebar just need to move the x down

red -> OS/WM can control that, if the program just allows it.
yellow -> completely in control of the program, if they use it as a thing to click on and move windows, cool, but every program has to support that, else a user would not have a way to control a windows, move it, etc.

from my understanding, so unrealistic expectation.

urban zodiac Oct 28, 2025, 4:54 AM

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fresh dune red -> OS/WM can control that, if the program just allows it. yellow -> complete...

considering it's the default file manager I think it's perfectly realistic for it to not waste space.

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like discord ok the disc devs are gay and don't properly implement it

drowsy cobalt Oct 28, 2025, 5:20 AM

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i dont see any waste of space there.

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titlebar looking good as it should, just like on Windows XP, and 7

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just the stock theme yours has may make it look bad.

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