{"id":3916,"date":"2014-09-08T15:10:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2014-09-08T15:12:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T15:12:14","slug":"window-titlebar-buttons-on-panel-xfce4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/09\/window-titlebar-buttons-on-panel-xfce4\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Maximized Window Titlebar &#038; Buttons on Panel in Xfce4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/xfce-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/xfce-logo.png\" alt=\"xfce4 window titlebar &amp; buttons on panel\" width=\"270\" height=\"215\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1820\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>This simple tutorial shows Xubuntu or Xfce4 users how to get the titlebar &#038; control buttons of maximized window on the panel using Windowck plugin.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>First take a look at the result (Ubuntu 14.04 with Xfce 4.10). You&#8217;ll see the title of current Firefox tab on top panel and the window control buttons on the top-right.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xfce4-titlebar-on-panel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xfce4-titlebar-on-panel-1024x574.jpg\" alt=\"xfce4-titlebar-on-panel\" width=\"610\" height=\"341\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xfce4-titlebar-on-panel-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xfce4-titlebar-on-panel-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xfce4-titlebar-on-panel.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To get started:<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Install the xfce4-windowck-plugin<\/b>, written by Alessio Piccoli and C\u00e9dric Leporcq.<\/p>\n<p>Download the binary from the link below that matches your OS type: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>64-bit system &#8211; <i>xfce4-windowck-plugin_xxx~trusty_amd64.deb<\/i><\/li>\n<li>32-bit system &#8211; <i>xfce4-windowck-plugin_xxx~trusty_i386.deb<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/oiteam\/xfce4\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/x\/xfce4-windowck-plugin\/' class='arconix-button arconix-button-large arconix-button-blue' target=\"_blank\" >Download Xfce4-windowck-plugin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then double-click the package to open with Software Center and click the install button to install it.<\/p>\n<p><b>2. Add the &#8216;Window Header &#8211; Title&#8217; and &#8216;Window Header &#8211; Buttons&#8217; to panel.<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>Now right-click on panel and navigate to <i>panel -> panel preferences<\/i>. Add the two panel items &#8216;Window Header &#8211; Title&#8217; &#038; &#8216;Window Header &#8211; Buttons&#8217; and move them to appropriate locations:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xfce-add-panel-items.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xfce-add-panel-items.jpg\" alt=\"xfce-add-panel-items\" width=\"280\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xfce-add-panel-items.jpg 280w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/xfce-add-panel-items-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that, maximize a window and you&#8217;ll see the window title and buttons on the panel.<\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> To get better appearances, do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use Window Menu instead of Window Buttons in panel, see above picture<\/li>\n<li> Hide the original titlebar when the window is maximized.\n<p>To do so, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install maximus\n\ngconftool-2 --set \/apps\/maximus\/no_maximize --type=bool true<\/pre>\n<p>Log out and back in to get it work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>4.(Optional) Uninstall.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Just remove the two panel items from the above picture and run below command to restore maximized window decorations:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">gconftool-2 --set \/apps\/maximus\/no_maximize --type=bool false<\/pre>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">via: <a href=\"http:\/\/goodies.xfce.org\/projects\/panel-plugins\/xfce4-windowck-plugin\" target=\"_blank\">xfce.org<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial shows Xubuntu or Xfce4 users how to get the titlebar &#038; control buttons of maximized window on the panel using Windowck plugin. First take a look at the result (Ubuntu 14.04 with Xfce 4.10). You&#8217;ll see the title of current Firefox tab on top panel and the window control buttons on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-3916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-xfce","tag-xfce4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}