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I want to change the height of title-bar, but until now (as I know) there's only one way to do that : change the font-size of WINDOWS TITLE FONT (in Appearance preferences). So far so good except the BIG SIZE of the text. How could I disable(or hide) the text?

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Emerald themes can do that, but i guess you wouldn't want to use it, some themes for metacity also don't have the Text in the tittlebar. – Uri Herrera Jul 25 '11 at 11:45
Yes, I dont want to use Emerald. Just wondering that is there any way to modify a metacity theme (which file, which property or something like that)? – quangtruong1985 Jul 25 '11 at 12:09
I'm not in Ubuntu now but i think in gconf-editor. apps->metacity->general. – Uri Herrera Jul 25 '11 at 12:50
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Or you can edit the theme, if you installed it through Gnome Appearance window the themes are here: home/[yourusername]/.themes/nameIchose/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml – Uri Herrera Jul 25 '11 at 12:51
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And if you installed the themes through sudo apt-get, it's here:/usr/share/theme – Uri Herrera Jul 25 '11 at 12:53

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You'll have to edit the theme, if you installed them through the Gnome Appearance window the themes are here: home/[yourusername]/.themes/nameIchose/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml. And if you installed the themes through sudo apt-get, they're here: /usr/share/theme, you'll need to be root to make edits to the files there (use gksu nautilus).

Look for something like this:

<frame_style name=...

    <piece position="titlebar" ...
<piece position="title" draw_ops="title-..."/>`

It depends on the theme. Experiment and you'll get results.

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It didnt work for me. I added has_title="false" and selected another theme (let's say Ambiance), then I selected my theme again, the windows border is still the last theme i chose (Ambiance) instead of the border of my theme. Seem that has_title="false" makes the theme have no border. – quangtruong1985 Aug 3 '11 at 6:24

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