# Plasma Titlebars appear stretched/squished **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** plasma, theme, kubuntu\ **Created:** [May 18, 2025, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-titlebars-appear-stretched-squished/34449 "2025-05-18T08:10:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mucky\_Ducky](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/mucky_ducky/32/21544_2.png) [@Mucky\_Ducky](https://discuss.kde.org/u/Mucky_Ducky)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 8:10am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-titlebars-appear-stretched-squished/34449/1 "2025-05-18T08:10:55Z")
Sometimes the titlebars in some plasma windows are stretched in a strange way when I resize the window. The Min/Max/Close buttons will stretch and get further apart from each other, and the title will also scale horizontally. It appears as thought it is a scaled image rather than a layout that adjusts itself to fill its designated space. The attached image shows the title bars from 3 windows. The top one titled “About this system - System Settings” appears normal. The middle one titled “GPU - System Monitor” is stretched wide - you can see that the text is stretched horizontally and the min/max/close button are larger than the title bar above it. The third title says “Nordonia - Dolphin”, and you can clearly see that the text is squished, as well as the min/max/close buttons. How do I prevent this? Operating System: Kubuntu 24.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.12 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.13 Kernel Version: 6.8.0-59-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660/PCIe/SSE2 Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd Product Name: MS-7C02 System Version: 1.0 ![image](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/3X/d/f/dfc9b068e03c2adaf4d117f117d6538e24bfbcc5.png) ---
**Author:** ![dzon](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/dzon/32/498_2.png) [@dzon](https://discuss.kde.org/u/dzon)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-titlebars-appear-stretched-squished/34449/2 "2025-05-18T11:58:59Z")
Does this happen with all aurorae stuff? ---
**Author:** ![Mucky\_Ducky](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/mucky_ducky/32/21544_2.png) [@Mucky\_Ducky](https://discuss.kde.org/u/Mucky_Ducky)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-titlebars-appear-stretched-squished/34449/3 "2025-05-18T15:33:32Z")
No, it’s with random individual windows. The screenshot was taken on my desktop with 3 windows, and not all of them were affected. I haven’t been able to notice any pattern in regards to any particular program being affected or any particular action being the cause. ---
**Author:** ![dzon](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/dzon/32/498_2.png) [@dzon](https://discuss.kde.org/u/dzon)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-titlebars-appear-stretched-squished/34449/4 "2025-05-18T15:49:05Z")
I meant, does this happen with any aurorae window decoration? Iow, do you have the problem with, say, default breeze window decoration or another aurorae theme? ---
**Author:** ![Mucky\_Ducky](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/mucky_ducky/32/21544_2.png) [@Mucky\_Ducky](https://discuss.kde.org/u/Mucky_Ducky)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-titlebars-appear-stretched-squished/34449/5 "2025-05-18T16:02:18Z")
I haven’t tried it with any other theme yet. I’ll switch and see if it comes up. It’s intermittent, so I’m not sure how long it’ll take to get a result. My current theme, btw, is Ant-Dark. I can say that I’ve had this theme for years and not had this problem. I want to say that it started popping up around 6-9 months ago? It’s a minor annoyance, so I ignored it for a long time. The functional impact is that I have to guess where the min/max/close button’s action areas are located (they don’t scale with image). I just switched my theme, and upon application the new theme (Breeze Dark) appears fine. Switching back to Ant-Dark also looks fine. We’ll see if it holds, I’ll keep it on Breeze for a while. Ty for the suggestion. ---
**Author:** ![dzon](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/dzon/32/498_2.png) [@dzon](https://discuss.kde.org/u/dzon)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 4:16pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasma-titlebars-appear-stretched-squished/34449/6 "2025-05-18T16:16:28Z")
Well, if it turns out to be the theme and you want your current ant look, might I suggest to give Klassy window decoration a swing. It has many more options than some aurorae theme. ![Screenshot_20250518_181537](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/3X/5/e/5e3e0c52e6362a2ef1c067b164b571961dc15309.jpeg)