Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most 
apps, very little screen estate is left for the actual stuff and most of 
it is eaten up by the menubars, toolbars, and othe gui elements. I have 
my gnome preferences set to small icons for the toolbars without text.

Are there any other configuration parameters that can be tweaked in my 
gtkrc (or elsewhere) to reduce/remove the extra space around the toolbar 
icons and make better use of screen space?

I almost wish the gtk/gnome devs had smaller monitors :-)

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Raj Kiran Grandhi
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