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Jason
Asked: 2011-11-04 15:12:45 +0800 CST

Remove titlebar from maximized terminal window

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I'm using XFCE on 10.10 and this is just one of those "is this even possible" type questions.

When I have the terminal maximized, is it possible to remove the titlebar, including the close, minimize and maximize buttons?

In essence, it'd be nice to have a fully maximized, transparent terminal overlay. I tend to use terminal text editors alot, and this would be an interesting effect.

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  1. Best Answer

    This should do what you want:

    Copy and paste this into your favourite text editor:

    #! /usr/bin/python
from gtk.gdk import *

w=window_foreign_new((get_default_root_window().property_get("_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW")[2][0]))
state = w.property_get("_NET_WM_STATE")[2]
maximized='_NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_HORZ' in state and '_NET_WM_STATE_MAXIMIZED_VERT' in state
if maximized: w.unmaximize()
if w.get_decorations() == 0 :
    w.set_decorations(DECOR_ALL)
else:
    w.set_decorations(0)

if maximized: w.maximize()
window_process_all_updates()

    save in your home folder with the name decoration.py

    Add execute permissions:

    chmod +x ~/decoration.py

    Create a keyboard shortcut:

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    For the shortcut in the picture - maximize your terminal and type ALT+y to remove the window decoration in the terminal.

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