How to prevent Gnome apps from removing title bar when maximized?

Question

As of Gnome 3.6, Files (previously known as Nautilus) removes its title bar when maximized. Several other Gnome apps that I generally don't use also do this, e.g. Epiphany.

Is there a way I can stop them from doing this, so that when I maximize an app, it would still have a title bar?

Answer 1

I found that a preference "ignore-request-hide-titlebar" was added in 3.6. Unfortunately the preference is not loaded from gsettings, so I wrote an extension to set it: https://github.com/garyvdm/gnome_shell_ignore_request_hide_titlebar