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ChameleonScales

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Registered: 2019-11-21

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Disable rounded corners

I often accidentally close the window below the active one and this is how it happens:

• the active window takes the whole screen but is not maximized, therefore it has rounded corners, causing a click in the top-right corner to operate outside that window

• the window below IS maximized, so it doesn't have rounded corners and if I click in the top-right corner, it hits the X button.

Is there a way to disable rounded corners alltogether so this doesn't happen again?

Last edited by ChameleonScales (2019-11-21 17:15:32)

ToZ

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Re: Disable rounded corners

Hello and welcome.

You can use a window manager theme (Settings Manager > Window Manager > Style tab) that has square corners (e.g. Arc, Numix, Plata).

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ChameleonScales

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Re: Disable rounded corners

Thanks! and sorry, where are my manners? Hello everyone!
So Numix still has slightly rounded corners so it doesn't work but Ultimate-Plata prevents closing the window behind.
The best would be if a click in the corner would actually close the non-maximized window on top, which is not the case because the cursor changes to window resizing, which I don't need since I always resize windows using the Alt key (set in Window Manager Tweaks > Accessibility > Key used to grab and move windows). Do you know if there's a way to disable this cursor behavior when hovering on window borders?
It's no big deal though, the main issue is solved.

Last edited by ChameleonScales (2019-11-26 06:33:23)

ToZ

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Re: Disable rounded corners

Do you know if there's a way to disable this cursor behavior when hovering on window borders?

The mouse cursor behaves as such when it is hovered over a border. If there were no border, then the behaviour would not be present. It would just be a matter of deleting the left, right and bottom elements in the theme. Or, if you have no need for borders or a titlebar (if you are managing the windows with a keyboard) you could use a theme with no borders/titlebar. As an example:

mkdir -p ~/.themes/noborder/xfwm4
touch ~/.themes/noborder/xfwm4/themerc

...and change to the "noborder" theme in the settings manager.

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ChameleonScales

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Re: Disable rounded corners

Interesting. I would still like to have the top bar though, so I'll keep Ultimate Plata for the moment.

Last edited by ChameleonScales (2019-11-25 07:58:21)

ChameleonScales

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Registered: 2019-11-21

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Re: Disable rounded corners

Actually I'd like to disable the edges except keep the title bar if possible. I just asked in a new topic.