I’m thinking seriously about making Budgie my daily driver (currently using xubuntu). I absolutely love its beauty and elegance!!! But I have one really nitpicky thing that is driving my OCD absolutely bonkers keeping me from taking the plunge. Thats resizing the top toolbar and application toolbars. They need to be smaller. Theyre just way too big taking up too much desktop space for gaming. https://gyazo.com/3bc2ebc527e70ef76b7ed56a5ddfda13 The top toolbar I might be able to live with but the one for tilix shown in the link (and all other programs) just seems excessively big especially compared to the razor thin size in xubuntu. I know you can shrink the top main toolbar (though I forgot) but the application toolbar I cant find anything on.
If anyone has any suggestions or a solution please let me know!
Think this is a theme issue. Suggest use a slim theme such as pocillo-slim … i.e. open menu budgie desktop settings and change the style from the list of available themes.
Im not looking to change that. Im looking to change the size of the application titlebar. From what ive read this a gtk3 thing and cant really be adjusted which is unfortunate.
As I mentioned previously - the application titlebar is influenced by the theme you are using.
Some themes shrink the titlebar - but there is a finite size on applications that use these “Client Side Decorations” - i.e. in GNOME based apps, the apps draw the title bar to provide capabilities such as buttons.
In desktops such as xfce the titlebar is more or less useless - it provides basically the title of the app and window controls. More space is then taken by the subsequent menu.
Its a different kind of philosophy I suppose - the space to provide all the app capabilties without needing to resort to menus compared to the space to-do window decorations + application menus.
Maybe this helps: here is a direct comparison of using different GTK3-themes. On the left, I use the Pocilllo-Slim theme, on the right, the Vimix theme. You can see that the title bar is considerably slimmer, something like 25%.
Maybe you can find the perfect theme in Gnome Looks …
Its incredibly ugly Foss! That I agree! But… I dont want to give up pixel space to titlebars! My OCD isnt so bad that I have to use xmonad. I still like having a centralized menu in place but… grr!
Hence the beauty of Locally Integrated Menu ( in Unity ) + Global Menu : a smart way of using empty space of top panel and title bar, while keeping a classically worded menu in user’s language and giving the whole window to app’.
@Marissa it seems you make use of a top panel, pixel saver applet and ( centered ) global menu applet may provide a workaround to save some vertical space - but these applets won’t have any effect for CSD app’s ( see here how it works ).
Changing the title bar size can be accomplished by tweaking the theme css if you if you have some knowledge GTK 3. Another option is to install a theme with a compact bar. Adapta colors theme pack offers a compact variant.
headerbar entry,
headerbar spinbutton,
headerbar button,
headerbar separator {
margin-top: 0px; /* same as headerbar side padding for nicer proportions */
margin-bottom: 0px;
}
headerbar {
min-height: 0px;
padding-left: 2px; /* same as childrens vertical margins for nicer proportions */
padding-right: 2px;
margin: 0px; /* same as headerbar side padding for nicer proportions */
padding: 0px;
}
Opening the file ./themes/vimix/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and putting the snippet almost at the end, results in a 25% change in the height of the title bar (beauty is in the eye of the beholder; I wasn’t so fond of the small title bars, but I might actually stick with it) :
