Greetings,
I am really enjoying Plasma 6.1! I am new to the Plasma desktop and I know there must be a way to modify the size of an application while it is maximized, but I have not been able to find it.
just like my lower panel is in the attached screenshot. I would like to pull the borders in slightly to show a small portion of my desktop. along the perimeter. Thank you!
I’m not sure I 100% follow what you want, but if you search “borders” in the Plasma application launcher, it will offer “Window Decorations” as an option. If you click that, you get a list of alternative “window borders” implementation - the default one is called Breeze, and if you open its options panel by click on the pencil icon, then you get this dialog:
where you can check “Draw border on maximized and tiled windows” - this will “unhide” the window borders of maximized windows and allow you to more easily grab them. You can use the same screen to change the size of the borders - make them huge if you like it.
Thanks, Guss. I’ll check it out and see if it offers what I’m looking for. All I want is that when I open a program such as Firefox or Kdenlive and maximize it, it does not cover the entire desktop but leaves a small gap around the perimeter of the application, and there is a small amount of the wallpaper (desktop) that can be seen. It looks like it can be done by tweaking the settings that you provided in this post. Many thanks, sir!!!
Enabling borders around maximized windows for Breeze won’t show bits of the wallpaper around the maximized windows - the borders are black.
There are window decorations that allow some transparency for the borders - look for them in the KDE store (you can get to it by pressing the “Get New…” button in the Window Decorations configuration page) and maybe these will be more of what you were looking for. I can recommend Klassy - which is the decoration I use in the above screenshot - though it requires some non trivial installation precess.
I think what you are looking for, though, is more about having a gap around the window - like the gap between tiles when you use the tyling layout (press METAT to see and configure it), but I don’t know how to have tile gaps around regular maximized windows.
