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yak

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Registered: 2023-09-07

Posts: 3

How to completely hide Thunar's toolbar and menu bar

Hey there!
I'm trying to hide the menu bar on Thunar, but when I do it, I get three dots appearing on the left of the toolbar, like in the picture below. I get why these dots appear and I get that it's useful to have an option to show the menu again, but I'm fine with CTRL + M, so I'd like to hide it since because of this button I can't hide the toolbar. I can't see an option to disable it anywhere, so how can I do it? With css maybe?
Thank you.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: How to completely hide Thunar's toolbar and menu bar

Hello and welcome.

See: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/936.

You might be able to use css, but it won't pass all cases and it will look/work inconsistently. Something like:

toolbutton:first-child image {-gtk-icon-transform: scale(0);}
toolbar entry {margin-left: -30px}

...but the button is still press-able and if you enable the menu, it throws off the positioning.

On the other hand:

toolbutton:first-child image {-gtk-icon-transform: scale(0);}

...just makes the image invisible, but still press-able and there is a visible space there.

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yak

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Registered: 2023-09-07

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Re: How to completely hide Thunar's toolbar and menu bar

Hey, thank you very much for you response.

So there isn't a way to completely hide the entire toolbar?

Too bad!

ToZ

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Re: How to completely hide Thunar's toolbar and menu bar

View > Configure Toolbar and you can remove items. You just can't currently remove the menu button if the menu is not shown.

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yak

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Registered: 2023-09-07

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Re: How to completely hide Thunar's toolbar and menu bar

Yes, I meant to remove the toolbar and the button.
Thank you anyway!

dselen

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Registered: 2025-01-06

Posts: 25

Re: How to completely hide Thunar's toolbar and menu bar

Hello and welcome.

See: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/936.

You might be able to use css, but it won't pass all cases and it will look/work inconsistently. Something like:

toolbutton:first-child image {-gtk-icon-transform: scale(0);}
toolbar entry {margin-left: -30px}

...but the button is still press-able and if you enable the menu, it throws off the positioning.

On the other hand:

toolbutton:first-child image {-gtk-icon-transform: scale(0);}

...just makes the image invisible, but still press-able and there is a visible space there.

Is this still not possible?

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,313

Re: How to completely hide Thunar's toolbar and menu bar

If you are referring to not displaying the button at all, that option has not been coded in. You might consider creating a bug/enhancement report for it.

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