Add option to remove all title bars. (like i3)

[NicTanghe]

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

make users able to remove titlebars in fancy zones option. Like in you whould do in a windowmanager like i3

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

toggle option - no title bars.

EDIT: I fucking hate titlebars and alt move exists on windows so they have 0 function.take up to 20 procent of my screenspace to do NOTHING

[enricogior]

Hi @NicTanghe thanks for the suggestion, but I doubt this is really doable on Windows since too many apps have custom title bars that are difficult to be controlled programmatically.

[NicTanghe]

Well if the title bars are costum there is no need to remove them but if they are just the standard title bars then that would be Splendid.

[enricogior]

Removing the FZ label, since this is not a feature that is specific for FZ and "Window Manager" is a better fit.

[NicTanghe]

please note that #9276 had 60 upvotes.

[Tagette]

#9276 had more votes and explains the feature better. IMO 9276 should be the active issue.

Right now you can do a hack using auto hotkey to hide and unhide the title bar in certain apps. It would be great if fancy zones had this as well. Mostly because auto hotkey can lead to bans if cheat software detects it for some games.

This video shows how to do it via auto hot key. Maybe it would not be difficult to do the same thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTChbqsRV0k

[NicTanghe]

@Tagette Thats not how it works . The feature was requested already no need to make new tickets.

Who explained it better is a matter of personal opinion.

I think you don`t need 10 sentances and bunch of abbreviations. To say something as simple as. please allow us to toggle the titlebars.

[livejamie]

Is this still being worked on?

[lwbaqueros]

I think there is no one assigned yet to this task. I hope the Project brings this Feature Request to the front soon. It has been requested for 6 years. It would be awesome to have this feature

[Dimfred]

GlazeWM has implemented this btw. If you want it, you can disable the whole window management and just use that to remove the title bars.

[NicTanghe]

Hmm that does look great thanks for bringing that up ! How do i set it up like that though. i cant seem to get a searcher or win+1 and whatnot.

[Dimfred]

searcher? searcher for what? there is a command called unmanage or something, if you don't want window management, let the regex match everything. win+1 idk why that's not working for you maybe you ask in the repo tho that should be pretty basic. win+l is the only thing which cannot be bouund but that's a limitation of windows lol

[livejamie]

GlazeWM has implemented this btw. If you want it, you can disable the whole window management and just use that to remove the title bars.

I've been using AltSnap.

[chipbite]

I "never" (*) drag windows, I use the window manager keys to move windows around, which fulfills I virtually all my needs during the day to day.

• Vscode: I use a custom css to disable vs code titlebars completely. I have had it that way for 2-3 years. I have never (never ever, not once)) had any need for the titlebar since. Never. I have tabs and all other "framing UI elements" toggleable.
• Browser: I use firefox since it will easily let me remove all "UI framing elements", titlebar, menu, tabs. I have never - not even once - felt the need for a titlebar. I access address, toolbar and tabs by pressing alt-d to move to address bar and have the elements fly out.

( Ofcourse it most likely happens, no doubt, at some point for some app or another. Thats why you probably want a toggle or a way to disable and enable the titlebar. )

[Dimfred]

@chipbite I would be really interested in your vscode css, and how to apply it.

[chipbite]

Sure @Dimfred ,

Details here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/174903#issuecomment-2920655729

[Dimfred]

@chipbite you are my hero, thanks

[a13ph]

Browser: I use firefox since it will easily let me remove all "UI framing elements", titlebar, menu, tabs. I have never - not even once - felt the need for a titlebar. I access address, toolbar and tabs by pressing alt-d to move to address bar and have the elements fly out.

@chipbite Are you using about:config -> full-screen-api.ignore-widgets to make f11 toggle titlebar or some other method?

[NicTanghe]

Hello these are unoptimal and a 7 pixel wide titlebar is not removal, it's stil there. Windows needs to fix this propperly and intenally. it cant be more then 40 lines of code to add a propper toggle.

[chipbite]

Hey @a13ph , I am using a piece of custom css in my userchrome.css.

Here are my notes for firefox config:

For firefox, config: (1) Add this code to autohide toolbox: https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/blob/master/chrome/autohide_toolbox.css Add to e g : C:\Users<USER>\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles*.default-release\chrome ex:) (id will differ) %appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\9d6nmzbf.default-release\chrome\userChrome.css Instructions are here: https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/tree/master 2025 May - win11, confirmed still works great.

Hope this helps!