gui- How to remove window decorations?

[vinceASPECT]

hello,

is there a way to escape to the prompt from the gui of tcl64?

when selecting "exit to prompt"  from the exit menu, nothing happens.

when i press "control alt backspace" nothing happens.


my main question is how does one remove the surrounding window borders from app windows...?.....( title bar are and the max min buttons etc? .....remove them from app windows)

i expect you install a wm to do  such removal? (fluxbox?).....well i have installed that wm but how do i get it to start-up from the normal tcl64 gui ......?



thx
v

[jazzbiker]

Hi, vinceASPECT!

In case You got into trouble trapped inside X, try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, seems this terminate X unconditionally.

[Juanito]

..or <ctrl-alt-f2> then "sudo killall Xorg"

[jazzbiker]

I experienced Exit, ignoring any commands, when I tried to run X being non-tc user without passwordless sudo. In this situation You can perform dummy sudo, for example

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sudo whoami during which You will enter the password, and then perform task required, for example

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exittc I mean doing all this in terminal window.

Have a nice Core!

[jazzbiker]

As the kind of joke in order to have borderless windows You can

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kill $WM_PIDYou'll got beautiful undecorated windows, but You will loose any possibility to switch between them, move or resize, only one working window and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace ahead :-) or starting the new instance of window manager, possibly the better one :-)

[polikuo]

If you want a borderless environment, you can always try wmfs2.

[Rich]

Hi vinceASPECT

... when selecting "exit to prompt"  from the exit menu, nothing happens. ...

After selecting  "exit to prompt"  did you remember to click the  OK  button?

... i expect you install a wm to do  such removal? (fluxbox?).....well i have installed that wm but how do i get it to start-up from the normal tcl64 gui ......?

A little Googling suggests  openbox  is capable of doing it. It's available in the 64 bit repo:
http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86_64/tcz/openbox.tcz.info

Single click the  Apps  icon.

When it comes up, click  Apps->Maintenance->OnBoot Maintenance.

In the right panel, select  fluxbox  and click the  Delete Item from list  button. Do the same for flwm, flwm_topside, and
any other window managers you may have listed there.

Then:

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Ctrl-Alt-F1
sudo killall Xvesa
sudo killall Xorg
tce-load -wi openbox-config
startx
This thread provides several ways to undecorate/redecorate windows in openbox:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/453953/how-to-redecorate-windows

[Rich]

Hi Juanito

..or <ctrl-alt-f2> then "sudo killall Xorg"

That should be  <ctrl-alt-f1>

[vinceASPECT]

hello forum,

thankyou very much for all your support an replies on this topic.

it seems that this relatively modern laptop here may have some slight gremlins
in it's bios and hardware initialisations.

There are some keys that simply don't work.
(the left shift  key) (print screen system req key no longer works).......also it always boots with numlock enabled (light on)......while the  bios specifically instructs the initialisation(s) to *not* enable numlock on boot.

i have tried usb keyboards and it's slightly different.

this laptop has always inferred that it has some bios issues regarding power settings and other issues.

So tcl things such as "exit's to prompt" and other things that don't work could be linked to bios issues with this machine.

true Rich....i could google things on this laptop model etc.

i will continue with the "wm" ideas which the forum has mentioned.

many thanks

v

[vinceASPECT]

this thread solution works great.  (openbox window manager)

thanks for the forum support....indeed

V