Game title bar

Choose a default, compact or hidden title bar for the game window.

Settings → General → Game window → Title bar offers Default, Compact and Hidden. The choice applies to a game that is already running. Default is the default.

Choice	What you get
Default	The normal header bar
Compact	A shorter header bar
Hidden	No title bar and no window controls. A tiled window keeps its tile, because hiding does not request fullscreen.

• Entering and leaving fullscreen does not bring a hidden bar back.
• With no bar showing, whether Hidden or fullscreen, the bottom row of the window is a black line and the game draws one row shorter. Without it some compositors treat the window as hidden behind the game and the text-box editor never appears. Why: ADR-056.
• With the bar hidden, use your desktop’s window shortcuts to move or close the game, and the Cordial launcher to change this setting.
• A direct cordial-run launch takes CORDIAL_TITLE_BAR=hidden for the same mode.

This applies only to Wayland game windows. The X11 runtime uses a native window with no Cordial title bar, so the setting does nothing there.

Changing the bar resizes the canvas, which reaches the engine as an ordinary window resize. Why: ADR-044.