window decorations disabling/hidding

[farangkao]

first: great first impressions.
However under a tiling window manager, like Hyprland, the top windows decoration with title and minimize / maximize buttons are noise.

is there already an option to disable them, if not it would be nice to have it either auto-detect that it runs in a tiling window manager or at least let it be an option to turn off.

[farangkao]

Note: i tried Zen-Mode, while it does hide the window decorations, it also hides everything else, useful, but not 100% what is needed for normal workflow.

[yhay81]

There is currently no separate setting for this in the desktop build. What you see is not a Hyprland/server-side decoration that a window rule can remove; it is ZenNotes' own React TitleBar rendered inside the Electron window.

The current component always renders its 44px (h-11) drag region and, on every non-macOS platform, the minimize/maximize/close buttons: https://github.com/ZenNotes/zennotes/blob/main/packages/app-core/src/components/TitleBar.tsx#L9-L64

The app shell only suppresses that component when zenMode is true:

https://github.com/ZenNotes/zennotes/blob/main/packages/app-core/src/App.tsx#L874-L880

That explains both observations:

• Hyprland's decoration/noborder rules cannot affect it, because it is HTML inside the client area.
• Zen Mode removes it, but also removes the sidebar and note list because the same zenMode condition controls all three.

So there is no clean runtime workaround in the packaged app today. The minimal product change would be a separate persisted showTitleBar / hideTitleBar preference and render condition such as:

{!zenMode && !hideTitleBar && <TitleBar />}

That can be independent of Zen Mode; no Electron window-frame change is needed, because ZenNotes already creates non-macOS windows with titleBarStyle: 'hidden' and supplies its own controls: https://github.com/ZenNotes/zennotes/blob/main/apps/desktop/src/main/index.ts#L3415-L3438

I would favor an explicit Linux option over compositor auto-detection: it works for Hyprland, Sway, i3, and unusual user setups without relying on environment-variable heuristics. Until that option lands, a source build with the TitleBar render removed is the only durable way to get the requested normal layout.