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Stephen Boston
Asked: 2018-01-10 09:52:39 +0800 CST

MATE 17.10 -- any way to get window shade (roll up) on the window menu

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This used to be fairly standard - many years ago. I see this:

How to do window roll-up/shade in 16.04?

But I haven't been able to make any of the solutions work for MATE.

Is there any tweak other than installing an entirely different desktop?

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  1. Best Answer

    You can try to set new window-bar button layout on your Ubuntu MATE 

    gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general button-layout \
'menu,shade:minimize,maximize,close'

    to get window rolled/unrolled (Roll Up / Roll Down) by mouse

    BlackMATE-Roll1 GreenLaguna-Roll1

    but here exists problem - not all themes support this functionality - at least BlackMATE, GreenLaguna support it (try from System->Preferences->Look and Feel->Appearance or mate-appearance-properties).

    Other layout is supported by them too as

    gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general button-layout \
'menu:shade,minimize,maximize,close'

    BlackMATE-Roll2 GreenLaguna-Roll2

    You can set keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+S to change window state:

    gsettings set org.mate.Marco.window-keybindings toggle-shaded '<Ctrl><Alt>s'

    Shortcut works even if theme does not show buttons.

    Moreover if you want to set shade/unshade on mouse middle-click you do this with:

    gsettings set org.mate.Marco.general action-middle-click-titlebar 'toggle_shade'

    From System->Preferences->Look and Feel->Windows (mate-window-properties) on Behaviour tab you can set Titlebar Action on double-click on it (Double-click titlebar to perform this action) to Roll up instead of default Maximize.

    I hope that finding and downloading themes is not a problem. Two are in the repository - Numix (numix-gtk-theme package) and Numix Blue (numix-blue-gtk-theme package).

    I tested this on 16.04 LTS, 17.10 (now EOL), 18.04 LTS and 19.04 with Marco and Compiz window managers.

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