XFCE note: autohide panel (the clock is not), accessibility WM tweaks turned on (hide title…) as I usually have a window maximized. Raise-on-focus (Window Manager settings, similar setting in tweaks for window cycling) turned off, allowing rolled-up windows to not disappear when unfocused.

System note: I have not maintained it well, broken dependencies right now and have finally got bit by nVidia as my system won’t properly wake from suspend. Getting an alternative GPU is somewhat of a mess, especially prices and getting full performance. EDIT: Updated, working fine now

I made this ultra-minimalist window theme a while ago (this is the second version, with the widget-capable layout and style-based color accent) and have been using it.

The title is 12px tall (the buttons are default 8px, though can get taller with alternate hover/click states).

At this size, XFWM has a design issue with font sizes/baselines so most fonts are cut off (the selected font is Nimbus Mono PS Bold 10, larger has text descenders cut because text can’t overlap window contents)

I would try to take this idea further (and fix some of XFWM’s other relevant issues) with my own WM but I use a somewhat niche language and couldn’t figure out how to render a rectangle the last time I looked into it (the WM I was looking at doesn’t have titles/window controls).

Not set on a name as lots of themes have size-based names but are not as minimal.