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September 9, 2025 at 11:09 am #185271
Robin
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    After installing the ungoogled chrome appimage on your system, you’ll notice Chrome disrespects your default Desktop design, putting e.g. the window border buttons to the wrong side, rendering it hard to work with this program. This disrespectfulness is because it is tailored for wayland, and enforces CSD. The default workaround for enforcing server side decorations is not respected by Chrome either: I have set up my system already like that:

    1.) Install the package.
    $ sudo apt-get install gtk3-nocsd

    2.) Append (if not present already) the two lines

               GTK_CSD=0
           LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0"

    to the file /etc/environment

    3.) Restart the program.

    But as said, Chrome disrespects even that, while it works fine for other programs like FileRoller, Firefox, Librewolf etc. Reason is: Chrome doesn’t use the GTK engine at all, but instead uses its homebrew “Aura” window manager engine.

    Still, after many time consuming experiments I finally found the soulution within Chrome itself. It is flabbergasting simple, if you know where to look. The following procedure will fix the issue.

    1.) After starting the appimage, within Chrome, click open the Settings menu.

    2.) Therein open the section “Darstellung” *), and change the setting to “GTK theme”.

    3.) Additionally, in the same section, scroll down to find a switch named “Titelleiste und Ränder des Systems verwenden” *) and turn it on.

    The proper decorations and button positions will appear immediately, no longer on wrong side. (Shouldn’t this behaviour be the default!?)
    Not sure whether this will be needed each time after replacing the appimage by a next updated version. Will see…

    *) Sorry, don’t know the proper translation to English used by the Chrome GUI. I tried to look it up in the .mo files within the appimage, but sadly there are none. Instead there are merely some brotli compressed pak files for each language, hard to dechiffre. So please find out on your own what these read in English. Should be something like “Presentation” and “Use Caption Strip and Edges of the System”

    • This reply was modified 1 year ago by Robin. Reason: Added Screenshot for better orientation
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