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    New (lack of) Opera menu bar is UNUSABLE

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    • vr51
      vr51 last edited by

      There is a way to restore the title bar in Kubuntu so probably the same method applies to vanilla Ubuntu.

      Try setting a Window Rule for Opera windows. In KDE we do this under System Settings > Window Rules and set 'No title bar and frame' to 'Force' and 'No'. That's how I got mine back.

      There is a quick guide to restoring Opera the menu bar here.

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      • A Former User
        A Former User @vr51 last edited by

        @vr51 Thank you for the suggestion! The article you linked is nice, but I haven't found a way to do this in vanilla ubuntu yet. I installed compiz, which seemed to offer many of the custom settings available in KDE, but it doesn't have the options described in the article for forcing a title bar/frame.

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        • l33t4opera
          l33t4opera @Guest last edited by sgunhouse

          Hi @ricitron,
          1. Regarding the lack of the Opera's menu, you can try to run the Opera with the following switch: /usr/bin/opera --show-opera-menu.
          2. On bringing back the GTK window decorations, you can try the following steps: open a new shell window, and run: /usr/bin/gtk-window-decorator --replace &>/dev/null &. If it still dosn't show up, click the Restore/Maximize button, and see if this helps.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            @l33t4opera said in New (lack of) Opera menu bar is UNUSABLE:

            1. On bringing back the GTK window decorations, you can try the following steps: open a new shell window, and run: /usr/bin/gtk-window-decorator --replace &>/dev/null &. If it still dosn't show up, click the Restore/Maximize button, and see if this helps.

            This bit implies that compiz-gnome is installed and used as window manager for gnome, thus it is useless for the ones not using gnome or compiz at the very least.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User @Guest last edited by

              @l33t4opera thanks for the suggestions! Suggestion 1 started showing an opera logo in the upper left of the window, but still no title bar. Suggestion 2 didn't work as @jimunderscorep mentioned, because I'm using 16.04 with Unity. Will it definitely work in GNOME? Maybe it's time to upgrade to 18.04.

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              • l33t4opera
                l33t4opera @Guest last edited by l33t4opera

                Hi @ricitron, you're welcome, the above tips are only workarounds for the issues, they may work or not under various circumstances. Do you have installed the compiz-gnome package? If not, then install it, run the command mentioned above again, and check if this helps.

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User @l33t4opera last edited by

                  @l33t4opera thanks again for the suggestion. I did try it again with compiz-gnome installed, and it still didn't work. Hopefully they add an option to re-enable to the title bar soon.

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                  • a-n-w
                    a-n-w last edited by

                    I also don't understand why the title bar buttons have moved to the right to match the Windows style rather than unix

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                    • l33t4opera
                      l33t4opera @Guest last edited by l33t4opera

                      Hi @ricitron, not at all ;-) You can try to log out and log in again to your user account, and see if it helps. Yep, it would be nice if it can be added/unified for majority of the desktops in the future.

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        This must by far be the most useless change ever!!
                        I makes my tabs go "micro" sized because i use the whole tab bar when surfing. Not a nice surprise.
                        And i have found no way to change it sitting on Ubuntu 18 and Opera 55.
                        And the fact that the HTML% needs to be redone every time there is an upgrade to the browser. As of this update i cant even play games on FB .
                        I need ti switch browser if this doesn't go away in a hurry. 😞

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