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Hide Opera title bar

Thursday, July 23, 2009 5:48:33 PM

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I have added an option to hide title bar in Opera Launcher as several users want it [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].

To hide/unhide title bar, use Titlebar button! or create new keyboard shortcut/mouse gesture in application section with the following action. 

Execute program, "C:\Program Files\Opera\OperaLauncher.exe", "/h"

! If your path to OperaLauncher.exe is different change it in toolbar configuration file after closing Opera.

If you minimize Opera and then switch to Opera, taskbar will hide.

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Comments

Dacotah Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:29:29 PM

Tamil, you sure are something else, meaning you sure are great to do all this for people.
Thank you for your time.
banana banana banana banana

lunigma Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:26:10 PM

For anyone who wants to be able to do this on any window you can try this autohotkey:

WinSet, Style, ^0xC00000, A

I have it set to toggle using Windows key + T, which would be

#t::WinSet, Style, ^0xC00000, A

I wish I could upload the executable

Tamil Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:10:29 PM

Originally posted by Dacotah:

banana banana banana banana

http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Drool.gif -

Originally posted by lunigma:

For anyone who wants to be able to do this on any window you can try this autohotkey

It is good but you have to run it always.

KarenNerak Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:17:22 PM

Awesome, Tamil! Most definitely worthy of lots and lots of banana!!!

bananabananabananabananabananabananabananabanana

S a msamfresco Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:39:27 PM

Great!! Thanks!! banana banana

Dacotah Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:54:32 PM

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Angelikiellinidata Friday, July 24, 2009 1:16:17 AM

and you deserve it here too!

Havana Banana Bath Ice Cream

for a brainy monkey heart

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Mağruf ÇolakoğluZAHEK Friday, July 24, 2009 7:26:57 AM

very nice.

tomasprague Friday, July 24, 2009 8:26:14 AM

This is great! It works fine except that sometimes it suddenly hides the bottom Windows panel as well..

tomasprague Friday, July 24, 2009 9:00:20 AM

Also, is it possible to reopen the initial settings dialog of Opera Launcher? I dont how do I do that.

And one more thing, now I cant see the Opera icon in the right corner notification area, is it possible to turn it back on? How?
Thank you

Tamil Friday, July 24, 2009 11:03:25 AM

Originally posted by tomasprague:

It works fine except that sometimes it suddenly hides the bottom Windows panel as well..

Originally posted by Tamil:

If you minimize Opera and then switch to Opera, taskbar will hide.


Originally posted by tomasprague:

it possible to reopen the initial settings dialog of Opera Launcher?

Click OperaLauncher shortcut.

Originally posted by tomasprague:

now I cant see the Opera icon in the right corner notification area, is it possible to turn it back on? How?

yes Disable enable command line option in Opera Launcher settings.

Patrik PettersonPattelito Friday, July 24, 2009 1:19:01 PM

You ARE wicked good, Tamil! thanks alot!

walterbugscout Saturday, July 25, 2009 7:02:58 AM

up Great

shapes Saturday, July 25, 2009 10:53:42 PM

thanks Tamil and lunigma, i have wanted to get rid of the title bar for ages!

i have used your OperaLauncher and a button to hide/unhide the title bar.

how do i get it to stay gone after i use Fullscreen?

better yet, how do i make it gone forever!?

Tamil Saturday, July 25, 2009 11:12:09 PM

Originally posted by shapes:

how do i get it to stay gone after i use Fullscreen?

Create a keyboard shortcut or mouse gesture with following action. 
Leave fullscreen & Execute program, "C:\Program Files\Opera\OperaLauncher.exe", "/h"

shapes Sunday, July 26, 2009 5:33:06 PM

cool thanks.

i have it working in 10 beta but not 9.63 operaUSB, which is my main browser. anything special i should be doing there?

Tamil Monday, July 27, 2009 10:13:41 AM

Works fine in 9.64 PortableOpera.

shapes Monday, July 27, 2009 12:24:16 PM

Originally posted by Tamil:

Works fine in 9.64 PortableOpera.



ok sorry, i just thought you may have known of some limitation.

my mistake must be something simple somewhere because OperaLauncher doesn't need to be setup at all, nor have it's ini present, for this to work. i've checked the path to OperaLauncher and your command in the keyboard shortcut 20 times!

btw; my previous post wasn't very clear but i have hide/unhide title bar working in Opera Portable 10r2 (OperaUSB) but not in 9.63 (OperaUSB).

thanks again.

Tamil Monday, July 27, 2009 12:31:06 PM

Check path to OperaLauncher in button.

shapes Monday, July 27, 2009 2:20:19 PM

i can't because i deleted button. the path in the kb shortcut is correct. i'm just going to skip this for now and face it later when i move to version 10.

Tamil Monday, July 27, 2009 2:24:29 PM

Okay.

Charles SchlossChas4 Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:51:28 AM

banana x 7

Always great and wise posts

Engr. PaRmInDeR MaNgAtparmindermangat Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:11:38 AM

How to hide it in ubuntu 9.04

Tamil Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:41:44 AM

I don't know.

Richard E. BotbylPizzapops Wednesday, July 29, 2009 3:37:43 PM

I have added a toggle for the Title Bar to my [View Toolbars Menu]

Item, "Title Bar"="Execute program, "C:\Program Web\Opera_10\OperaLauncher.exe", "/h", "Hide/Show Titlebar", "checkbox skin""| "Execute program, "C:\Program Web\Opera_10\OperaLauncher.exe", "/h",,"

You will have to change the path for your Opera.
http://files.myopera.com/Pizzapops/files/toolbars.png -

praetor87 Friday, August 7, 2009 4:08:52 PM

What is the "title bar"? faint

Tamil Friday, August 7, 2009 4:30:21 PM

Originally posted by praetor87:

What is the "title bar"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_bar

praetor87 Friday, August 7, 2009 4:48:11 PM

Originally posted by Tamil:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_bar



Too basic for me. p
Thank you!

rocket74 Sunday, August 30, 2009 4:33:53 PM

hi Tamil!

By create new mouse gesture, I've enjoyed ur magic trick for a while! smile


BTW, Could you pls tell me how to change the path of OperaLauncher.exe when i create this button in HTML Document?

I try to understand how to create the button by view the Titlebar button's source file, which shows like:

Titlebar

and i try to change it like this(e.g. opera folder is F:\Opera_1000_1750):

Titlebar

but it doesn't work. confused

The one i try to create must have been wrong. Would you please tell me how could i do to fix it.

TIA

rocket74

Tamil Sunday, August 30, 2009 6:14:41 PM

Go to here, paste the following in create the button box, change path to OperaLauncher.exe and click create button. 
Execute program, "C:\Program Files\Opera\OperaLauncher.exe", "/h", Hide/Show Titlebar, Hotlist Accountstatus On

rocket74 Sunday, August 30, 2009 8:15:21 PM

With a little help from u, I can work it out! cheers

http://i31.tinypic.com/k3aaus.png

Here's a piece of cheese cake, enjoy!

Tamil Sunday, August 30, 2009 10:12:27 PM

happy

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 2, 2009 9:25:54 AM

Ziyaretçi writes: Anyway to keep status bar on after hide (minimize) and show opera again?

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 2, 2009 9:27:01 AM

Ziyaretçi writes: i mean taskbar.

Tamil Wednesday, September 2, 2009 10:20:54 AM

Nope.

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 2, 2009 8:56:05 PM

Lare writes: When i use this "hide the title bar" option, opera works in "always on top" mode. Is there a way to stop this "always on top" problem?

Tamil Thursday, September 3, 2009 2:25:57 AM

I don't know why you have always on top problem.

Strathos Tuesday, September 8, 2009 7:49:06 AM

You are the best, Tamil : )

Unregistered user Saturday, October 17, 2009 1:37:41 PM

vie writes: [QUOTE]Lare writes: When i use this "hide the title bar" option, opera works in "always on top" mode. Is there a way to stop this "always on top" problem?"[/QUOTE] Yeah, I also have this problem. Hope you fix this as soon as possible ( You can see this problem when taskbar is in "Auto hide" mode and click "Hide Tittle bar" button). By the way, thanks for what you are doing (I like Menubar and Titlebar button most).

pollaki Friday, October 23, 2009 3:26:21 AM

great!! exelent job Tamil...

Ismo Hänninenismoph Thursday, November 12, 2009 6:04:12 PM

@ vie and Lare
I got rid of the problem by just making the window a couple of pixels smaller from the top. I guess you have to first make the window almost the size of your monitor.
Thanks Tamil, you're the man!

Unregistered user Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:52:06 PM

Phil writes: My Opera folder is in program files/opera/opera.exe But when I make your button and change the exe file to opera.exe, nothing happens when I push the button. All it does is open a new empty page. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I've made a button containing Execute program, "C:\Program Files\Opera\opera.exe", "/h", Hide/Show Titlebar, Hotlist Accountstatus On On http://home.wanadoo.nl/sipke.reina/opera/buttons.html Using Opera 10.1 in Windows 7

Tamil Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:04:52 PM

You have to use Opera Launcher.

Unregistered user Sunday, November 22, 2009 1:06:07 AM

Phil writes: Thx a lot, working great now :)

Unregistered user Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:15:25 AM

匿名 writes: Hi,Tamil. Thank you first. And here, I have a trouble. The title bar will back when opera go back to normal mode from fullscreen mode. What can I do?

Tamil Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:22:27 AM

How do you switch from full screen to normal mode?

Unregistered user Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:30:00 AM

匿名 writes: Press F11.

Tamil Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:46:19 AM

It is not possible to hide title bar when switching from full screen to normal mode.

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