Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:05:08PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most apps, very little screen estate is left for the actual stuff and most of it is eaten up by the menubars, toolbars, and othe gui elements. I have my gnome preferences set to small icons for the toolbars without text.

Are there any other configuration parameters that can be tweaked in my gtkrc (or elsewhere) to reduce/remove the extra space around the toolbar icons and make better use of screen space?

I almost wish the gtk/gnome devs had smaller monitors :-)

not really an answer to your question, but a solution to the
problem. Try a different window manager: xmonad, wmii, twm, etc. The
tiling WM's decidedly don't waste screen real-estate. It's definitely
a different mode of operation, though. Personally, I prefer it, but
that's me. I like lots and lots of terminals open...

To your question directly, some apps have preferences that let you
turn off tool bars and menu bars, but those seem to be app specific. I
would say your best be is to get down to at most one taskbar (or
whatever GNOME calls it) and make it really small. You can probably
tweak some setting to maximize windows by default as well. That may
help a bit.

Thank you and to all others for their suggestions. I shall try alternate WMs, but the problem appears to have more to do with gtk than with gnome. The panels take up a tiny portion 2x24 px, but it is the extra padding around the toolbar icons, the menubar titles, the tabs and scrollbars and the like that is eating up the space.

This issue is not very pressing, just a bit annoying :-)

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Raj Kiran Grandhi
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