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3. Configuring the titlebar appearance and action

With this dialog, you can change the visual appearance of the titlebar and partially choose how it acts..

The Title Alignment selection sets the position of the window title in the titlebar. The choices are left, middle, or right (left-justified, centered, or right-justified)

There is a choice between four options for the titlebar Appearance:

• Shaded Vertically: fills the bar with a color gradient from top to bottom
• Shaded Horizontally: fills the bar with a color gradient from side to side
• Plain: fills the bar with a simple color
• Pixmap: allows you to select pixmaps which are tiled to fill the titlebar; in this case click on the Active pixmap and Inactive pixmap buttons to select different pixmaps for the titlebars of active and inactive windows. You may also choose not to extend the pixmap tiling under the text on the titlebar.

If the ``Active title has shaded frame'' box is checked, the titlebar of the active window has a shadowed, slightly three-dimensional look.

The Mouse action section lets you choose what happens when you doubleclick on the titlebar of a window with the left mouse button. Possible choices are:

• (Un)Maximize : double-click to maximize the window, double-click again to unmaximize.
• (Un)Shade: double-click to hide all parts of the window except the titlebar, double-click again to restore it (somewhat like the action of roller-blind window shades). This is the default behavior.
• Iconify: Window is shrunk to an entry on the Taskbar.
• (Un)Sticky: double-click to change between ``sticky'' and ``not sticky'' window attribute.
• Close: Window is closed.

If the window title is too long to be completely displayed on the window titlebar, the "Title animation" option allows the text to slide back and forth, so all of the title can be read. The slider bar controls the period of this motion; setting the period to 0 switches off this feature.

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