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D.dave

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Registered: 2019-12-06

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Gedit: remove the headerbar (?)

This is how Gedit looks when executed by my user:

This is how Gedit looks when executed as root user:

I'd like much more in this way, without the hederbar, but I can't figure out what I have to add to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

eriefisher

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Re: Gedit: remove the headerbar (?)

This is not a css thing. This is a CSD(client side decoration) thing. Do you have gtk3-nocsd installed? Not sure why it's rendered differently between root and user?

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D.dave

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Registered: 2019-12-06

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Re: Gedit: remove the headerbar (?)

Do you have gtk3-nocsd installed

Yes.

However: in gtk.css I am able to change/hide/remove the text of the headerbar, by using:

headerbar {
    color: transparent


}

There is also a way to reduce the weight to 0px?

Last edited by D.dave (Yesterday 12:41:32)

eriefisher

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Re: Gedit: remove the headerbar (?)

Try adding GTK_CSD=1 to /etc/environment and restart. (I think that's the line. Going from memory)

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D.dave

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Re: Gedit: remove the headerbar (?)

Try adding GTK_CSD=1 to /etc/environment

This broke the titlebar of my theme; in facts, I use gtk3-nocsd and GTK_CSD=0: in this way, gedit, use the title bar of my theme; but as you can see in the screenshots, gedit executed as root, doesn't have the headerbar.

eriefisher

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Re: Gedit: remove the headerbar (?)

I would check in /root directory for either .profile or in .bashrc to see if something is set there making it different between root and user.

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D.dave

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Re: Gedit: remove the headerbar (?)

check in /root directory for either .profile or in .bashrc

Nothing special: there are the same things that I have set for my user

The funny thing is: that, if as root I execute GTK_CSD=1 gedit, gedit still doesn't have the headerbar

EDIT: I've found a partial solution/workaround: I edited the Gedit launcher/.desktop file as following:

bash -c "LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/qt/plugins/platformthemes/libqgtk3.so GTK_CSD=0 GTK_THEME=Greybird-dark gedit"

In this way, is started like as root, without the headerbar:

EDIT 2:
I also made a bash script: ~/.local/bin/gedit, with the following content:

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/qt/plugins/platformthemes/libqgtk3.so
export GTK_CSD=0
export GTK_THEME=Greybird-dark

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/qt/plugins/platformthemes/libqgtk3.so GTK_CSD=0 GTK_THEME=Greybird-dark /usr/bin/gedit $1

And in mime-types, I choosed this script for opening text files; otherwise, Gedit is normally started without the workaround.

Last edited by D.dave (Today 12:32:31)