customizationgnome-shelltitlebar
Just moved from Unity to GNOME with the update to Ubuntu 17.10.
There is a HUGE amount of wasted space at the top of the screen, when an application is open.
Evolution and Firefox both have four "bars" with 90% of each empty. Unity, to its credit was able to blend / mix these horizontal bars so there was only one / two.
Four is way too much. If this is GNOME I may carry on with Unity for the next six months.
Can anybody suggest a tweak/change/fix for this?
An example of a .desktop file to select vim terminal editor for your files in the Open with other application dialog is
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Vim Text Editor (Console)
Comment=Edit text files in a console using Vim
Exec=vim %u
Terminal=true
Type=Application
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/vim.svg
Categories=Application;Utility;TextEditor;
StartupNotify=true
MimeType=text/plain;
NoDisplay=true
Save this as ~/.local/share/applications/vim.desktop and the application will be automatically shown on Open with other application to be selected as default application.
The options for the .desktop files are many but its important to know what they mean.
nautilus-actions.org supplies a very good guide and explanations for creating your .desktop files and all the possible parameters that you can use on them so if you have any doubts about creating a special .desktop file you can visit the site and look at the examples there.
Open MATE Tweak and check "Undecorate maximised windows" under Windows.
Warning: Title bar of a maximised window will vanish completely. You won't see window control buttons (close, minimise, maximise) for maximised windows. You'll have to use keyboard shortcuts.
Most probably Ubuntu MATE 18.04 will have the window control buttons.
Best Answer
You may try one of following GNOME Shell extensions to get rid of the title-bar of a maximised window:
No Title Bar (an actively maintained fork of Pixel Saver with customisation options)
Pixel Saver
Note that Pixel Saver is not actively maintained anymore, therefore has a lot of unresolved issues like this one and doesn't offer any customisation options.
Other similar extensions (including forks):
You can even go further and hide the top bar following this answer by solsTiCe from this Q&A: Auto hiding top panel in 17.10 GNOME 3.26.1.
Also, you may move the menu bar from an application window to the top-bar ("Activities bar") following this Q&A: Ubuntu 17.10 windows' menu in panel.