Sway: Titlebars longer than on i3

[bool3max]

sway version: sway version 1.0-beta.1-186-g47cca240 (Nov 13 2018, branch 'master')

Sway's titlebars are quite a bit longer than on i3 and waste more space (there's more space below and above the window title text). It's sorta annoying because I use the tabbed layout a lot.

The font size doesn't affect this. Is there any way to shrink them in height? I haven't found anything in the manpages or the wiki.

[fdlamotte]

You might be looking for TITLEBAR_BORDER_THICKNESS and TITLEBAR_V_PADDING in include/sway/tree/container.h, I changed their values to 0 recompiled and now I have thin titlebars ;)

[bool3max]

Thank you! How hard would it be to make this a configurable property inside the config file? It's a shame that they're hardcoded.

[ddevault]

Probably not terribly hard. Looking forward to your patch!

[emersion]

Does i3 have a way to configure those?

[fdlamotte]

I've been toying around with it a little, here is a little patch, just a POC, It has been a long time since I wrote any meaningfull line of code, so the quality should be considered very low. I've proposed three commands : titlebar_v_padding titlebar_h_padding (titlebar_border_width) titlebar_border_thickness

Regards

patch.txt

[ddevault]

I would prefer titlebar_padding which, if given one argument, applies padding to both, if given two arguments, applies padding on both axes, and if given four arguments, specifies each dimension explicitly.

[ddevault]

(We should be having this discussion on the pull request, though - can you open one?)

[fdlamotte]

I'm new to this but interested, I read the guidelines and go through the process

[ddevault]

Sure, here are our guidelines:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

And GitHub's docs on pull requests:

https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/

[fdlamotte]

Thank you for the help, it seems easier than I thought (remembered) to contribute to projects

[RedSoxFan]

This is resolved by #3145