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sd427

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Registered: 2022-05-10

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Window Buttons panel item, and minimized Terminal window button text

I have 2 Panels enabled.  Panel 1 at the top of the display, with an App menu, and various other widgets.  Panel 2 at the bottom of the display, with Show Desktop, Window Buttons, and the Workspace Switcher widgets.

My older Linux host is running Xfce 4.12, and when I have various xfce4-terminal windows open, the buttons have the xterm style header text displayed.  When I minimize a terminal window, the text inside the button is enclosed in square brackets, while terminal windows that are not minimized, the text is not enclosed in square brackets.  That makes it easy to see which terminal windows are open, and which are minimized.

On my newer Linux host, running Xfce 4.16, I have a similar setup, but the button text does not get the square brackets when I minimize terminal windows.

What controls that?  The Window Manager Theme?  A setting in xfce4-terminal?

Last edited by sd427 (2022-06-07 18:27:26)

KBar

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Re: Window Buttons panel item, and minimized Terminal window button text

Are those square brackets textual or graphical? If it's the former, it's owned by libwnck; if the latter, it's controlled by your GTK theme.

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sd427

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Re: Window Buttons panel item, and minimized Terminal window button text

Pretty sure they are textual.  I have Arc-Dark-solid chosen as the theme for both.

KBar

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Re: Window Buttons panel item, and minimized Terminal window button text

Yeah, it's probably in your xfce4-terminal preferences.

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Tamaranch

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Re: Window Buttons panel item, and minimized Terminal window button text

There is a hidden setting to enable this: "label-decorations".
See https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-pane … 7221adee3e
The easiest way is to add it via the settings editor (xfce4-settings-editor).

Last edited by Tamaranch (2022-06-07 18:41:18)

sd427

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Registered: 2022-05-10

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Re: Window Buttons panel item, and minimized Terminal window button text

~/.config/xfce4/terminal/terminalrc?  No significant differences between the two.

sd427

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Registered: 2022-05-10

Posts: 17

Re: Window Buttons panel item, and minimized Terminal window button text

There is a hidden setting to enable this: "label-decorations".
See https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-pane … 7221adee3e
The easiest way is to add it via the settings editor (xfce4-settings-editor).

Excellent, thanks!

sd427

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Registered: 2022-05-10

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Re: Window Buttons panel item, and minimized Terminal window button text

More info here https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=14609
I did do a search before posting, but for the phrase "square brackets".

Last edited by sd427 (2022-06-07 19:01:04)