xfce4-terminal window borders pagging

mikkqu · 2016-10-15 23:48:46

Hello,

Recently, I've been thinking of an idea of ditching urxvt in favor of xfce4-terminal.
I couldn't find a reliable way to manage tabs with urxvt, but in xfce4-terminal they work just as I expect.

I've "entered" most of my settings from .Xresources from urxvt, but one little thing still makes me unhappy. I didn't find a way to set up the padding between the text and the window borders. It is one pixel by default which in not always optimal value, as you can see from my screenshots (click for full picture):

Basically, it's the same thing which is discussed in the following thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments … plication/

That discussion is pretty old, is there anything changed since then? Is it hardcoded somethere in a source code? What's the policy about this settings?

Another difference I noticed is that I cannot resize window height to less than 2 rows as I can do with urxvt (see my screenshot). I can imagine there's some kind of limitation behind it but which one exactly?

Thanks!

Last edited by mikkqu (2016-10-15 23:49:24)

ToZ · 2016-10-16 01:14:21

Which version of xfce4-terminal are you using? If you are using a newer version built with gtk3 (and vte3), you can use a snippet like this:

VteTerminal, vte-terminal {
        padding: 15px;
}

...in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css to change the padding.

mikkqu · 2016-10-16 03:14:31

I'm using default one that comes from arch linux repos (4.12 and xfce4-terminal 0.6.3).
Just found out there is a port to gtk3 in progress, (sounds a little scary, hopefully it goes smoothly).

I guess the best tactic in my case is to wait for new version and check if there are any issues left (or introduced).

ToZ · 2016-10-16 11:36:48

The gtk3 port of xfce4-terminal is mostly complete. Igor has done alot of work on it and it works quite well. You can try it out via the AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce4-terminal-git/).

I've had a quick look to see if I can set the same padding with the gtk2 version but haven't found anything yet - will keep looking,

mikkqu · 2016-10-18 21:16:55

Ohh, gtk3 xfce4-terminal recently got into arch official repos:

First impressions: too much extra space comes from nowhere and now everything looks huge.
Made me to postpone transition from urxvt to xfce-terminal for an undefined period :-(

Hopefully it could be fixed tweaking the gtk theme...

Last edited by mikkqu (2016-10-18 21:33:18)

ToZ · 2016-10-18 23:59:06

mikkqu wrote:

Hopefully it could be fixed tweaking the gtk theme...

I noticed that with the Adwaita theme as well. Wasn't able to make the tabs any thinner. The Arc theme has thinner tabs though and looks very similar.

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