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    Title bar removed from latest Opera on Ubu 16.04?

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    • jamesisin
      jamesisin @Guest last edited by

      @jimunderscorep [shakes head] No O

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by A Former User

        Try unpinning the sidebar. I have nothing else to suggest.

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        • jamesisin
          jamesisin @Guest last edited by

          @jimunderscorep Are you running the latest Opera on Ubuntu 16.04? I am seeing this same behavior on at least three similar systems. This is pretty clearly a bug.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by A Former User

            I am running the latest stable opera in openbox (under debian testing x64).

            I was a gnome user once, until gnome 2.28 was released, like ~9 years ago, but I stopped using it when it became too dumbed down for me. As the english say, I have not touched gnome 3.x with a ten-foot pole.
            I was also an ubuntu user ~11 years ago.

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              Being able to shade/rollup windows (mouse wheel on title bar) is a must have !
              Without window title bar : we are back to the 1990's... I'm leaving Opera for Firefox waiting the bug to be fixed.

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

                The title bar seems to showing in the Windows style even though it's on Ubuntu. This only started happening recently. Is it a bug or do I need to change some setting?
                0_1535705656880_titlebar.png

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User last edited by

                  No, it is a well known and reported issue of v55 which has not been fixed yet, despite the 2 or 3 minor updates to v55 since then.
                  The ugly window decorations also exist in opera beta and developer versions as well, v56 and v57 respectively.

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                  • gleycon
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                    • jamesisin
                      jamesisin last edited by

                      Several updates later and still no change.

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        +1 for native window decorations!

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                        • A Former User
                          A Former User last edited by

                          Why all those software companies put effort into what has no need fixing/changing? Constant UI changes, unnecessary and distracting animations, background videos, oversized icons, massive open space - all things which does not help productivity at all.

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                          • A Former User
                            A Former User last edited by

                            Because "they know better than you".
                            Plus, when the changes from one major version to another are almost zero for the average user (e.g. opera 58, compared to 57, ONLY introduced the option to "warn before closing multiple tabs" and nothing more), you realize that something that classifies as "less important stuff" for you is a "major improvement" for the dev.
                            Altering the csd buttons just for linux will probably mean they will have a different code for them (= the buttons) to maintain for all future releases.

                            I think I will make a thread on "what still bugs me with opera" so I can share my thoughts with everyone else in here...

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                            • jamesisin
                              jamesisin last edited by

                              Eight months after my original post and still no change. No menus. No O menu. Clearly a major bug. Worst published mistake from Opera since I started using it in, what?, 1998? Quite appalling.

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User last edited by

                                Yesterday, I remembered that this thing exists
                                https://github.com/PCMan/gtk3-nocsd

                                It is supposed to disable csd on apps that support it. And it does work, mainly with gnome apps, but it does not work on opera. Launcing opera like so

                                gtk3-nocsd opera

                                just launches another instace of opera, with the csd.
                                This makes me assume opera's csd is as hardcoded as the gtk theme it uses, so there will be no change anytime soon.

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                                • A Former User
                                  A Former User last edited by

                                  Just to say that they RUINED the browser on Linux with the CSD choice.
                                  I am asking myself how has been possible possible to make such a radical, counterproductive and absolutely wrong choice. It costs about nothing to allow who wants it to show the titlebar.
                                  Why remove it to get an app looking so bad that one wants only to remove it just to not even have the possibility to look at it.

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                                  • A Former User
                                    A Former User last edited by

                                    I am a long-time Opera user, and I have been very much satisfied with this piece of software, that I've been using on Windows. But now as I am moving to Linux on my home machine, I just realized, that the CSD of the Opera window while fits in well with the Windows 10 UI design, it ruins the consistency of the look on the Linux desktop.
                                    I wish the option came back to use the title bar. I love Opera, but just looks so out of place on my Linux desktop 😞

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                                    • gleycon
                                      gleycon last edited by

                                      back to native window decorations! PLEASE!!!

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

                                        @gleycon If you are tired of Opera's lay-out nowadays it is possible to get the Otter Browser. Controlled by the user, not vice versa. It's a rather new browser and goes back to the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5. It's not as big as Opera today, but however it can be a good answer to less development on your favourite browser..

                                        Less is beautiful!! 😄

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                                        • jamesisin
                                          jamesisin last edited by

                                          A year. Pathetic. What happened?

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                                          • A Former User
                                            A Former User last edited by

                                            Obviously, the devs have no interest in fixing it.

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