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phorminx
December 13th, 2008, 06:06 PM
In general, I prefer gnome over kde. Yet one thing of gnome-terminal annoys me and makes me use konsole instead: with gnome-terminal, the close-tab button is right on the tab itself. Too often, I end up closing the tab when I wanted to select it. So how can I get rid of these close-tab buttons?

Thanks

fubbleskag
December 13th, 2008, 06:13 PM
I don't believe this is possible currently. Last year someone wrote a patch to address this specifically, but ubuntu devs wouldn't touch it unless it was patched by gnome-terminal devs first - who seem to be against the implementation.

phorminx
December 13th, 2008, 06:24 PM
Too bad! I guess I'll continue using konsole just for that!

fubbleskag
December 13th, 2008, 06:43 PM
don't give up hope - even Mr. Shuttleworth himself wants this functionality, so it's only a matter of time while they find a way to implement it without "******* off upstream" as he eloquently puts it.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TabConsistency

phorminx
December 13th, 2008, 08:29 PM
Kind of related: I was also annoyed by firefox that comes with such close-tab buttons, too. Yet firefox is configurable:

In about:config search for browser.tabs.closeButtons and give it the value 3, which will give you one close button for all tabs on the very right of the tabs bar. I believe that seamonkey does that by default.

wdoekes
March 24th, 2009, 02:10 PM
Indeed, it bothered me too. So I came up with this hack. It does the same as Firefox's browser.tabs.closeButtons=0:



--- gnome-terminal-2.22.1-orig/src/terminal-screen.h 2008-03-20 11:16:25.000000000 +0100
+++ gnome-terminal-2.22.1/src/terminal-screen.h 2009-03-24 13:26:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
GtkBin parent_instance;

TerminalScreenPrivate *priv;
+ GtkWidget *close_button; /* Hide tab close button hack */
};

struct _TerminalScreenClass
--- gnome-terminal-2.22.1-orig/src/terminal-window.c 2008-03-20 11:16:25.000000000 +0100
+++ gnome-terminal-2.22.1/src/terminal-window.c 2009-03-24 13:36:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -1442,6 +1445,10 @@

gtk_widget_show_all (hbox);

+ /* Hide tab close button hack */
+ screen->close_button = close_button;
+ gtk_widget_hide(close_button);
+
return hbox;
}

@@ -1645,6 +1652,10 @@
if (window->priv->active_term == screen)
return;

+ /* Hide tab close button hack */
+ if (window->priv->active_term != NULL)
+ gtk_widget_hide(window->priv->active_term->close_button);
+
/* Workaround to remove gtknotebook's feature of computing its size based on
* all pages. When the widget is hidden, its size will not be taken into
* account.
@@ -1668,6 +1679,10 @@

window->priv->active_term = screen;

+ /* Hide tab close button hack */
+ if (window->priv->active_term != NULL)
+ gtk_widget_show(window->priv->active_term->close_button);
+
terminal_window_update_geometry (window);
terminal_window_update_icon (window);


(licensed in whatever the license-form of gnome-terminal is)


Or you could fetch a pre-deb'd i386 version for hardy here:

http://wjd.nu/files/2009/03/gnome-terminal_2.22.1-0ubuntu2hideclosebutton_i386.deb

(copy-paste the url in your browser, my site does referer-checking)


Greetings,
Walter Doekes
OSSO B.V.