This is a fork of libxfce4ui with the explicit goal of removing Client-Side Decorations (CSD).

Currently, functions introduced in somewhere between libxfce4ui 4.15 and 4.16 enable CSD by default for all applications that use the XfceTitledDialog class. This is a rather invasive UI change and, for some, is entirely unwanted. Since, upstream has indicated that they have no intention to allow users to turn CSD off, this fork exists to allow users to disable CSD in any applications that use libxfce4ui.

We implement all CSD-specific functionality as ABI-compatible shims that simply forward to the relevant GtkDialog methods. This allows upstream applications built against upstream libxfce4ui to function with no modifications.

IMPORTANT: libxfce4ui-nocsd will only remove CSDs for applications that use the XfceTitledDialog class. To remove CSDs from any applications that use GTK3 Dialogs, you need to set the DialogsUseHeader option to false:

$ xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gtk/DialogsUseHeader -s false

This can also be done via the GUI under Settings Editor > xsettings > Gtk.

If packages aren't available for your distribution, skip to the Manual Installation section.

Gentoo: Xfce Classic Overlay

Fedora: libxfce4ui-nocsd copr

Manjaro: In official repository as libxfce4ui-nocsd

Arch: AUR

Ubuntu: Xubuntu QA Experimental PPA
Note: The PPA currently contains builds of libxfce4ui-nocsd with the package name libxfce4ui-nocsd-2-0. The package name and availability on this PPA is subject to change in the future.

To build libxfce4ui-nocsd from sources, you just need to perform the standard autotools dance:

$ ./autogen.sh # Not requried for tarballs from the Releases tab
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/libxfce4ui-nocsd # Choose any prefix you'd like
$ make
$ make install

Once installed to your chosen prefix, simply add the lib folder to the top of your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to ensure that applications dynamically linked against libxfce4ui will choose this version over any others you may have installed on your system.

For example:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/libxfce4ui-nocsd/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH