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One of the most annoying things about Ubuntu is probably the ~3-5-pixel border distance between the buttons on the title bar and the top and right sides of the window.

Is there any way to reduce that to zero?

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Why is it annoying? – user unknown Jul 15 '11 at 5:43
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@user unknown: See this (search for "pixel") and this. – Mehrdad Jul 15 '11 at 5:54
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@Mehrdad: those articles are an interesting read. I'm guessing you're looking for a theme similar to Clearlooks, with the buttons extended to the top and right edges of their window, in an Ubuntu Classic session with the top panel removed? – WarriorIng64 Jul 15 '11 at 12:31
@Warrioring64: You read my mind! Yes. – Mehrdad Jul 15 '11 at 14:42

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Okay, I found part of the solution:

Go open /usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml and modify the right="1" top="2" values in the line saying

<frame_geometry name="normal" ...>
    ...
    <border name="button_border" left="1" right="1" top="2" bottom="1"/>
</frame_geometry>

This fixes the button issues.

However, this does NOT work for the title bar frame! If I go to the top of a maximized window's title bar and double-click it, it doesn't toggle the maximization. I need to move down the mouse by a few pixels to do that.

If anyone knows how to fix that part as well, that'd be great! Otherwise this is my best answer so far.

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There are many window border themes in Ubuntu, some of which nearly don't have a border at all. Try one of these.

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The New Wave theme is the first one that comes to mind for me. – WarriorIng64 Jul 15 '11 at 12:28
Yeah but they're ugly. :( (And besides, New Wave still has a border on the right side.) Any way to do this with ClearLooks? – Mehrdad Jul 15 '11 at 14:46
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The Adwaita theme for GNOME Shell seemed to me like it would be what you're looking for, and after a quick search on gnome-look.org I found a GTK 2.x version of it. Note that you will need the Equinox GTK+ theming engine installed for it to look right, but it's easy enough to find in the Ubuntu Software Center.

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