Aug 06,
2018

Gnome Header Bars

Greetings Netizens!

Today I've spent a couple of minutes of my busy day to scratch an itch I had regarding Gnome, in particular the CSD or Client Side Decorations. When they were introduced I didn't payed enough attention, well other than noticing how ugly Gtk2 applications look now.

Somewhat I confused CSD with Header Bars, the new windows' title-bar with embedded buttons, so searching on "how to operate those title-bar buttons without a mouse" using only the keyboard1 wasn't an immediate thing to do.

The question above is about enabling Bluetooth when your Bluetooth mouse is paired to your PC but it's not yet connected.

Well, there is a web page that lists all the keybindings and I'm quite sure I've read it in the past; what I probably missed is that F10 is used as default to give focus to the menu bar or header bar menu.

“ヽ(´▽`)ノ”

Next time it happens I'm sure I wouldn't need to find a spare USB wired mouse.

By the way, I noticed the gvfs (Gnome Virtual File System) daemon tends to spam the log with errors if the samba-common package isn't installed2.


  1. my opinion about touchscreens on notebook is very unpolite so it's better to not ask ↩︎

  2. it's included in the suggested packages, but usually I seldom install them if I don't need them actively ↩︎