I've just seen the titlebar-less ideas for Windows on #17060 too and I think any design idea used there can easily be converted for Gnome/Xfce/most Linux DEs as they too have the three buttons on top right.

It will be very nice it this happens for XFCE

Any news about this issue? The title bar take a lot of the screen

It would be important on Linux to try and respect peoples choice of controls (e.g. GNOME only have close by default but I have minimise & close) but this would be really nice to have

https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/CSD

Would be really nice to be able to remove titlebar, maybe similar to how Firefox have done it.

In Version: 1.25.1, choosing custom title bar style did the trick for me, it merges menu bar and title bar into one, although the look is not very neat, but it saves at least some screen space.
Try it. It's nice.

Go to File>Preference>Settings and in user settings write "window.titleBarStyle": "custom",

I am on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

I use SwayWM in tabbed mode. When window.titleBarStyle is set to native, I see no title bar, however, context menus and the main menu (File, Edit, …) are in light theme (I use dark theme, actually High Contrast).

When I set window.titleBarStyle to custom, context menus look nice, but an extra title bar show up.

I don’t to see any minimise/maximise/close buttons: I haven’t used that for ages! 😉 Screen estate is important, therefore I’d like know if there is a quick and dirty way to disable/hide the custom title bar. Thank! 🙏

Anyway, it would be nice if the main menu could still auto-hide and show on pressing Alt.

What about to make possible to place titlebar controls to the left in custom mode?

For Gnome users, https://github.com/hardpixel/unite-shell can "merge" title bar into the top panel:

My PR #141847 adds an option to hide the title bar when it is not needed for the menu bar.

@tukusejssirs In toggle mode, the title bar still shows up when pressing Alt as you suggested.

The custom window.titleBarStyle has one missing functionality in Linux: double-click maximizes the window. This works on Firefox.

The custom window.titleBarStyle has one missing functionality in Linux: double-click maximizes the window. This works on Firefox.

Works with version 1.70.0 on Gnome with 3-clicks instead of 2

Please add compatibility for native top bar buttons, with the option "window.titleBarStyle": "custom", in linux
Support for osx has been added, but more developers use linux.
If this is a product for developers do not deliver a lower quality version for linux. Don't be evil

I use a tiling window manager on Gnome, I think there really should be 3rd option of "window.titleBarStyle": "none", to remove it completely. I have resorted to using vscode in fullscreen mode with the native title bar which is almost exactly the way I want it to be, except now my notifications don't show and no longer have access to the gnome-panel for media controls and the like. :(

The custom mode still has the title bar taking up space, i don't need any of the information in the title bar, or the close button and if i need the menu i just want to press alt to reveal it like it does on the native titlebar for gnome with the menuBarVisibilty set to toggle

@xxKeefer Same for me. My issue would be resolved if I could just show notifications over fullscreen view.

For those with a Tiling WM such as @xxKeefer The Windowed Zen Mode extension might be a decent workaround to the look you want. It saves a lot of space in the screen.

thanks for the suggestion @cfuendev , however for anyone else reading i wouldn't recommend that extension, i kind of hides the stuff i want to see while not getting rid of the title bar

I would say that this can be actually closed soon. Two remaining issues are that the custom titlebar on Linux should:

• emulate native window control buttons look&feel on the platform

There's another issue for that you can support: #176467

Hi, could it be possible to customize the custom title bar traffic lights(minimize, maximize, close) buttons to use the native window button icon from linux? The buttons seems windows like icons and it does not respect the native icon.
But I noticed on mac using "custom" title bar style correctly uses the native window button icons.

Vscode & Nautilus side by side.

It's encouraging to see browsers like Firefox and Edge now respecting the native window buttons/icons on Linux. I'm hopeful that vscode will do it too.