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Q1 What themes has a thin top border?

Q2 Could I in an easy way change the size of the topborder of the default Ambiance theme

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The default theme (Ambiance) which I mostly like has a top border thats 28px high which I think is wasting a lot of space on my screen if I have a bunch of windows on the same desktop.

I have tried to use MyUnity to switch theme but it does not update the themes correctly immediately and surfing for new themes on the web is also very hard since I found no good searchtool where I could see the border look in a quick way.

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A1 I have not found any really good ones yet. But to have an easy look at the at all the installed themes I wrote a (not so) simple oneliner:

locate /metacity-1/ | \
sed "s@^.*themes/\([^/]*\)/metacity-1/.*@echo \1; gconftool --type=string -s /apps/metacity/general/theme '\1'; sleep 2;@" | \
uniq | bash

This will show you each theme for 2 seconds and display the name of the theme in the terminal

A2 Seems like the answer to this is NO. It seems like I will have to customize some existing theme to my own liking using this guide: http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/2008/05/30/themes/

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