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by zxcvbnm 1249 days ago
Exactly. Eg. at some point Ubuntu (true also for Win) decided no proper borders around windows and giant title bars. Now I always struggle findig the border, to grab, between two partially overlapping black terminal windows. And wasting screen realestate on title bars and margins just bugs the hell out of me. I've spent hours trying to fix these things, gave up in the end, there was always something that didn't work right. Why did the world forget doing reasonable defaults that just work without tweaking. Oh and don't get me started on disappearing scrollbars, and lazy loading ui components, which reorder what's under focus/mouse/finger every half a second, and make me do a wrong click if I'm in a hurry
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bmacho 1249 days ago
> Exactly. Eg. at some point Ubuntu (true also for Win) decided no proper borders around windows and giant title bars. Now I always struggle findig the border, to grab, between two partially overlapping black terminal windows.

Try setting up alt + right click, or windows + right click to resize the windows. I have AltDrag installed on Windows, and I can grab my windows anywhere to move or resize.

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anthk 1249 days ago
Scrollbar fix: edit /etc/profile.d/gtk.sh, add this:

      #!/bin/sh
      export GTK_NO_OVERLAY=1
Chmod +x it.

On theming: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

It works best with Ubuntu Mate. With Ubuntu Gnome it will work but not so integrated.

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