Save 20px by Going Frameless and Getting Rid of Atom’s Title Bar

Being a fan of keyboard shortcuts, I have never been a fan of macOS’ Title Bar.

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You know the bar I’m talking about. Most of the time, it’s not worth the real estate.

I scoured Github Issues and PR’s until I found exactly what I was looking for: A recipe, thanks to the man by the name of deeperx on Github.

# quit Atom

npm -g install asar
asar e /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar /tmp/atomasar

# 1. Edit src/main-window/atom-window.js & add:
#   frame: false

# 2. After the line
#   title: 'Atom'

# 3. Save

asar p /tmp/atomasar /Applications/Atom.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar
rm -rf /tmp/atomasar

See! No Title Bar! No Title Bar!

Keep in mind!

When you do this, moving your window around with a mouse will be virtually impossible, make sure you use some window management software!

View the issue on Github