I recently installed Linux Mint Cinammon on an old laptop to try it out. The Title bar on windows is too tall for me preferences. I poked around in settings but couldn’t find a way to make the title bar shorter. Is this not possible or is there some CLI-fu config to force it?
I found there isn’t any great way to do so. Your best bet is finding a theme that works for you. I like cinnamon for a nice default look though I am thinking of switching back to kde so I can customize more. The one theme I like has a title bar to big ):
You might wanna crosspost in https://lemmy.ml/c/linuxmint
I don’t use Cinnamon, but try to change the size of the font used by the title bar, in “Cinnamon Settings”. It might do the trick.
Tried. No go. It doesn’t change with the font size of the title bar.
Damn, that was a shame. Worth a try.
I am not sure on what I’m going to say, but then it’s possible that Cinnamon only allows you to do it through theme customisation. So one of the things that you could do is to look for Cinnamon spices (I think that’s how it calls its themes?) with the words “small” and “title bar”.
Okay thanks. May try it. Or may juts switch to i3 or xfce. I installed i3 the other day. Took a few hours of playing with it before I became comfortable with it.
If you’re considering Xfce, there’s also Mate (the one that I use). Mint has rather good support to it, and it’s basically GNOME 2 being updated by another team.
Still couldn’t find anything in Cinnamon Spices. Oh well.
I’m guessing you mean that it is too thick in which case only 2 things will change this, the theme and the font size, I have for now only found 2 themes with a reasonably sized title bar that aren’t too ugly, adwaita-slim and dracula-slim. If you look for “compact” or “slim” in sites like cinnamon looks you might find ones you like better
Font size did not affect change.
the font you had before you changed it may have already been hitting the minimum size of your gtk theme
the font you had before you changed it may have already been hitting the minimum size of your gtk theme
I don’t understand what that means.
