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ngagun

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Registered: 2012-04-30

Posts: 4

How to tweak tasklist icons to not fade when application minimized?

I'm using xfce 4.12/xubuntu 18.04. My theme is a modified Greybird. I would like to tweak it so that when a window is minimized, the icon in the tasklist ("Window Buttons") is not faded. I've played around for a while with various gtk config files in the theme but I can't figure it out. Could anyone suggest how to do this?

ngagun

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Registered: 2012-04-30

Posts: 4

Re: How to tweak tasklist icons to not fade when application minimized?

I figured it out, in case any future person is interested. You can edit the theme file gtk-2.0/gtkrc, and add the following:

style "xfce-tasklist-style"
{
  XfceTasklist::minimized-icon-lucency = 100
}
class "XfceTasklist" style "xfce-tasklist-style"

alcornoqui

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Registered: 2014-07-28

Posts: 831

Re: How to tweak tasklist icons to not fade when application minimized?

Ha, just when I was about to post an "I don't know"...

Thanks, interesting tidbit, how did you figure it out?

ngagun

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Registered: 2012-04-30

Posts: 4

Re: How to tweak tasklist icons to not fade when application minimized?

I eventually found this page which documents some properties including the necessary one...

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/tasklist

This is gtk2 so I guess the fix will not last forever. But for now, I like it! For my workflow, whether a window is maximized or not is irrelevant. I like to see an overview of all my open programs in the panel.