# XFCE title less theme



After some
[switching](/2008/july/07/xfce_to_xmonad_and_back_again/index.html)
I have now settled on 
[XFCE](http://www.xfce.org). With 
Ubuntu XFCE sometimes does not start, this is a `dbus` issue in
combination with `gnome-screensaver` (a race condition between the two).
This sucks, but can be resolved easily with

    apt-get remove gnome-screensaver

(There aren't any interesting option anyway...)

So my XFCE is now up and running, time for some tweaking.

In the quest for precious vertical pixels (especially on the EeePC 701 I
own) I decided I must remove those pesky title bars. 

I found [prelude-4.0](http://www.xfce-look.org/content/show.php/prelude-4?content=69300) 
which is beautiful, but
it make it kinda hard to see which window is active. That's why I've
modified it slightly to have a blue-ish border (at the left,
bottom and right) when a window is active. Just enough to 
give you a subtle visual hint. You download my variation (which 
is called `premiek` for lack of a better name) from
[here](http://downloads.miek.nl/2008/premiek.tgz).

Further more my `gtk` theme is Mist, a simple theme that is much
quicker (i.e. takes less resources) than for instance Clearlooks.

Take a look at the following screenshots. Click on them for larger
views.

Firefox with some gnome-terminals:

<a href="http://downloads.miek.nl/2008/screen-browser.png">
<img alt="Mist theme, browser and gnome-terminal"
src="http://downloads.miek.nl/2008/screen-browser-scaled.png"/>
</a>

Thunar with terminals and a `gvim` session:

<a href="http://downloads.miek.nl/2008/screen-vim-thunar.png">
<img alt="Mist theme, browser and gnome-terminal"
src="http://downloads.miek.nl/2008/screen-vim-thunar-scaled.png"/>
</a>