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shmu26

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[SOLVED] button labels -- how to show more text

I am running Xfce 4.18.0
I have "Window buttons" on my panel, and I ticked "Show button labels".
I want those labels to be wider, so I will see more text. How to do that?

Last edited by shmu26 (2023-01-05 18:28:45)

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] button labels -- how to show more text

Have a read through https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/tasklist and pay special attention to the note. Just tested it now and it did work for me by increasing the "max-button-length" value, so YMMV.

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shmu26

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Re: [SOLVED] button labels -- how to show more text

In

~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

I added the following text

# The maximum length of a button before the label ellipsizes.
# When this value is set to -1 the button will expand to the
# entire available space.
* { -XfceTasklist-max-button-length: 500; }

but it doesn't have an effect on the button size

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] button labels -- how to show more text

Did you restart the panel?

xfce4-panel -r

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shmu26

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Re: [SOLVED] button labels -- how to show more text

I did that restart command, and I also tried logging out and then back in.

I saw the note on the wiki page, that it might not work as expected, but I posted my results anyway, on the chance that I just did it wrong...

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] button labels -- how to show more text

Try this version instead:

.tasklist { -XfceTasklist-max-button-length: 500; }

...and restart the panel.

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shmu26

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Re: [SOLVED] button labels -- how to show more text

That did it.

Tamaranch

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Re: [SOLVED] button labels -- how to show more text

Interesting… How do you explain it ToZ? I guess it's better and the doc should be updated anyway.

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] button labels -- how to show more text

@Tamaranch, I've run into an issue before when using the wildcard in gtk.css. I'm not sure why it works sometimes and other times it doesn't. When you specifically target the widget, it works more consistently.

I'll update the documentation.

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Re: [SOLVED] button labels -- how to show more text

Thanks