WTH: Why header so unnecessarily big?

Archive Month of "What the heck?!" (2020)
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If only we could hide the header entirely… thats all I really need!

30

card mod it away, there’s posts floating around with the syntax

31

Thanks! Good to know for now, I’ll look for this workaround with card-mod. But in true “WTH” spirit, I still think this should be baked in, not hacked.

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32

I’m here to support the idea of integrating the most important features of CH into HA Core!
I personally think the option of having a smaller Header should be a priority now that CH is not available anymore as a solution, as well as a “footer mode”.

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I will also join. The whole look at the tablet on the wall is degraded by the big header that takes up space and I think it should be customizable

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FYI - for those looking, this comment has the card-mod code to get the custom-header look:

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Following up while playing with this.

First, I set the “always hide sidebar” setting for the tablet user. Then I just wanted to remove the top bar entirely. With car-mod themes, this was easy using:

amoled:
  card-mod-theme: amoled
  card-mod-root: |
    app-header {
      display: none;
    }

…in the amoled theme I’m using. Reloaded themes using the service. Completely removes the top bar, including the slide out icon for the drawer. Important to do it in this order, otherwise you wont see the drawer to be able to click on the user icon…to hide the side bar.

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I also made another alt config, just so people know:

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37

@KTibow Thank you very much! I’ll try that later today (temporarily - luckily CH still works so far).
But I still hope that the compact header will be native some day :wink:

38

Oh yes! :tada: :heart_eyes:

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39

This is great! Any idea what update it will be in? 0.117.0 or later?

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I really don’t know. The next beta release is in two days - if everything goes well, it could be in 0.117.0

41

but that PR is not about hiding the header?

42

and this What The Heck is not about hiding the header?

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43

Ok you are right :slight_smile:

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For hiding the header completely, you can try that one: https://github.com/matt8707/kiosk-mode
(but of course, at the moment you can still use custom header for that until it breaks)

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This leaves empty white space at the bottom of my view. The main container bg is an image, whereas sidebar bg is a css code. Any idea why?

image
image2016×1512 1.15 MB

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I think the kiosk-mode “addon” might needs to make more CSS adjustments to compensate the missing header. The best thing would be to open an issue in the repositiory - maybe the creator can help here.

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@christian_newton: The PR is merged now - so it should be in 0.117.0 :slight_smile:

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It is listed in the beta version of the release notes:

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