Somewhere along the line, I followed instructions to add a 'window specific' option to hide Firefox's titlebar (to enable 'tabs on top'). It worked, but I didn't like the way it looked. I lived with it for a while, and then migrated to Chrome. But I occasionally still use Firefox, and I want to get the titlebar back.

I'm several KDE versions down the road from there (4.6.5), and not only don't I see a window-specific rule for Firefox, I don't see an option in the window-specific settings for hiding the toolbar. But somehow it's hidden, and I can't get it back. Help???

Not exctly sure what you did

you could have used FF to:
- move tabs to top https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... s-on-top/#
- or to hide the title bar http://www.squidoo.com/hide-firefox-title-bar or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... -plus-sma/, etc .........
- check your addons installed, maybe there are other possibilities

if you used KDE to remove the titlebar
try systemsettings -> window behavior -> window rules -> delete any FireFox entries or edit the entry

Also make sure you didn't add the setting in System Settings -> Workspace Appearance -> (Window Decorations ->) Configure Decoration... -> Window-Specific Overrides.

Also make sure you didn't add the setting in System Settings -> Workspace Appearance -> (Window Decorations ->) Configure Decoration... -> Window-Specific Overrides.

Yep. That was it - thanks. I'm sorry folks. I love KDE, but the whole 'window-specific behavior' vs 'application-specific behavior' vs 'configure decoration window-specific' settings jumble is horrendously complicated. I have no idea how a user is supposed to find the option they want - let alone what 80% of these options do. All I know is I've never been able to consistently get kwin to remember app position and geometry - the only option I routinely (try to) use.

I don't know if it's just that there are too many options to allow them to all be presented in one place or what - but this kind of complexity presented to everyday users (and I'm an experienced unix programmer) is verging on nuts. That said, Chrome seems to manage to hide its own titlebar in KDE without having to resort to arcane window manager settings. Maybe it's Firefox's fault in trying to mimic Chrome without doing the whole job...

google01103 wrote:Not exctly sure what you did

My settings dialog (PCLinuxOS - KDE4.6.5) looks completely different from this one. Does this now combine all the window-specific stuff into one place? One can only hope...