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Issue for GTK to make their window decorarions clickable at the corner (gitlab.gnome.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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On Windows, KDE Plasma, and likely many other Desktops, if a window is ~~fullscreen~~ maximized and you push the mouse to the top edge and click, it will close.

Chrome-ium actually fixed that in their builtin buttons to work the same.

Not on GNOME because there is a panel at the top, lol.

But also not when using GTK apps on these desktops, where it should work. Instead you need a lot of precision, for no reason.

An easy fix would be to expand the actual clickbox further, not only around the (oversized) close button circle, but to the edge of the ~~screen~~ window.

This would make Thunderbird, Firefox, etc. closable likel any other normal app. ;D

If you support this, leave a like on the issue. And lets hope this doesnt get closed because of whatever...

Edit

This is about maximized, not fullscreen windows. But also about those.

And the request is to expand the clickbox to the corner of the window, not of the screen.

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[–] clubb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And how would you access the controls above the app? I understand you're most likely on kde, I used to shre the sentiment, but extending the close button to the panel would only break things

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Extend it to the edge of the window. The panel is above the window, no issue here

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think OP said

if a window is fullscreen

as opposed to simply being maximized.

[–] clubb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My bad