From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F3901381F3 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B95FFE0EE3; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:15:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f47.google.com (mail-bk0-f47.google.com [209.85.214.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 77E00E0EC9 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2013 13:15:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f47.google.com with SMTP id mx12so743220bkb.6 for ; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:15:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TEsokoRVqYrECeo2myucWbPHKWNmin/dftIMuKZp+tg=; b=eeSvANd44SLlWcpcN7K5HnJJ0fX0fYLRMHeAshr/MR7OxHuN67LJk4p+O7J9y/XOam ObX6zw7VkyxMTDgJn9fS+J8Xe/XlsOxvCk8cvq/6gYKo/qebwXFB0G0x7/pe23wOKBMH RFn0vVQVaVnSgifrZ1d9WQeB0Tt1NmyVSgK7W845GvcBdKV0zm5XhQeZet9bN6xTtcfz dblAim2yPnTBnprzjUQZ0g57X97bjcKlmMcCf7HFwdNYMG2rAg/d5SbUQCabdmrimTd9 jhyJQ1ztJI5F+H+qewIqOMOC0HUYwLtGrYhxKCS7TEvo74V6QmAApiRLgdrIsPehTwVH 2uBw== X-Received: by 10.205.15.7 with SMTP id ps7mr578805bkb.45.1378386955030; Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:15:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.20.201] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id kk2sm7975560bkb.10.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:15:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52288326.8050609@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 15:12:06 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Deficient Gnome Window Frames References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3a47c528-9dfb-45a1-aea0-c2baa5fb553c X-Archives-Hash: 1434ff5d0a17a544a4d4742775daaf4f On 05/09/2013 14:51, gevisz wrote: > Usually, when I open a new window frame in Gnome 2, I have a Close, > Maximize/Restore and Minimize buttons on its upper-right corner. > > Sometimes, however, especially when I open a supplementary window frame > from a running program, its upper (text) bar contains only the Close > button with no possibility to maximize the window frame to the whole > screen, and it is extremely inconvenient. > > I do remember that I had a similar problem in Gnome 2 under Ubuntu but > somehow managed to get to the configuration where almost all my windows > had Maximize/Restore and Minimize buttons. The only exception was the > Firefox sub-window to save a bookmark. :^( > > Just now, I have tries FXCE and found out that it opens all the > sub-windows with the Maximize/Restore, Close and Minimize buttons "out > of the box" and without recompilation of all the programs that do not do > the same in Gnome (except for the Firefox bookmark sub-window, of course). > > However, I am reluctant to migrate to FXCE right now because at the > moment I cannot achieve the same look-and-feel as in my Gnome > (especially, I miss the the all-in-one clock-calendar-weather applet > with the world map showing the daytime at different locations). > > Could anybody advise me how to get the Close, Maximize/Restore and > Minimize buttons in all window frames in Gnome 2. I think the true answer is "You can't. The Gnome devs know better than you what you want" I'm happy to be proved wrong though. If it bothers you, just migrate to XFCE and deal with the pain. It will last only a short time. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com