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title bar on linux mint cinammon windows - how to resize? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently installed Linux Mint Cinammon on an old laptop to try it out. The Title bar on windows is too tall for me preferences. I poked around in settings but couldn't find a way to make the title bar shorter. Is this not possible or is there some CLI-fu config to force it?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are many types of themes (look at what's inside the theme folder) eg. cursor, icons, widget (gtk/qt), wm/de specific stuff (xfwm, cinnamon) etc.

The theme you downloaded might only have cinnamon folder, they can only affect the taskbar and the start menu. For the titlebar, you want gtk themes (the one with gtk-x.xx folder) and select it under Applications theme.

I think the ones listed under simplified theme are just presets of icon+cursor+gtk+desktop themes bundled together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you recommend one with a short window title bar? I've tried numerous ones that appear in the Main Menu -> Preferences -> Themes: Add/Remove Tab. None of them thus far has made any difference regarding the height of the title bar. Or are you suggestions to get these gtk themes from elsewhere?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I usually download them from Pling. You could try NewAdwaita-slim.