franglais125
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7 years ago Thanks for taking the time of opening this issue! I apologize for my late reply. This was opened when I was traveling and then I totally forgot to answer.
Documenting what is missing would actually not help, as GNOME is in fact moving in the opposite direction:
- In order for this extension to work, we make use of a command (
xprop) that sets a window property (GTK_HIDE_TITLEBAR_WHEN_MAXIMIZED). It's up to the compositor then to honor this property and remove the title bar. - This property was only implemented for the X backend, meaning that similar work would be needed (upstream) in order for this to work in Wayland.
- However, for GTK 4, this was removed altogether, for X and for Wayland.
This means that this extension is tied to whatever we have in GTK 3. But this is not all negative - many applications (within GNOME at least) are moving to CSD style windows, meaning that there is no title bar to be removed (for instance Nautilus).
Sorry I don't have better news, but this is the current status. Summarizing:
- It only works for X for now - unless you patch GTK 3 yourself and rebuild it.
- No support will be added for Wayland, support for X will was removed (GTK4).
- Applications are moving to CSD anyway.
For more information:
- Related bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775061
- Commit removing support in GTK 4: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk%2B/commit/?id=92b0d2e
- Relevant Pixel Saver bug: https://github.com/deadalnix/pixel-saver/issues/32
I'll keep this issue open as a placeholder. Again, thank you for your attention!
The README says it's impossible to work under Wayland because:
it's possible to document better what is missing for Wayland in order to ease tracking with upstream or look for alternatives?