Monday, September 17, 2012

Reduce Gnome 3 title bar width

To reduce the Gnome 3 massive title bar width on windows do the following.

Open a terminal and run the following command (You might need to alter it, if you're not using the standard theme):

 sudo sed -i "/title_vertical_pad/s/value=\"[0-9]\{1,2\}\"/value=\"0\"/g" /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml  

Then either reboot or press ALT+F2, type r and press enter.

Voila, much nicer top bar size (in my opinion).

2 comments:

  1. Thank you! That title bar was killing me. Much nicer now.

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  2. On Debian 7 the file to edit is metacity-theme-2.xml
    Useful tricks ;)

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