Can I force the WM to draw native title bars on all windows?

[mandarpatil]

It really annoys me when certain UI frameworks *cough*electron*cough* decide that they know better than the window manager how to draw windows. A program that draws its own title bar, then becomes unresponsive because it's doing calculations on the UI thread *cough*electron*cough* can't be stopped without using something like xkill.

Is there some setting for xfwm4 that forces native window chrome even if the windows try to draw themselves "frameless"?

[michael-hi]

I've never heard of electron programs but if this is a similar problem to Gnome apps always using their own header bar instead of xfwm window borders, then you could try:

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sudo apt install gtk3-nocsd

(then log out and back in again)

Not sure if it would work for your scenario but you could test it and see.