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dselen

Member

Registered: 2025-01-06

Posts: 12

Adding padding or margins to panels that are positioned

Hello all,

I am trying to add some padding to one of my panels which is locked in position 9. But nothing seems to budge. My gtk.css is:

.xfce4-panel.horizontal {
    border-radius: 10px;
}

panel#panel-2 {
    margin-top: 50px;
}

but trying to target panel-2 do not work.

Does anyone have tips?

Last edited by dselen (2025-02-25 11:25:55)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,815

Re: Adding padding or margins to panels that are positioned

What version of xfce4-panel are you running?

For the first entry, you need to separate ".xfce4-panel" and ".horizontal" - they are two different hierarchical style classes. Also, depending on which items you have on the panel, not all might be affected by the "border-radius" setting.

As for the second one, you need at least xfce4-panel 4.19.4 and the "panel-2" designation is a style class, so:

.panel-2 {margin-top: 50px}

...but the panel class alone does not support margins, you need to target something below the panel, like:

.panel-2 .horizontal {margin-top: 50px}

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dselen

Member

Registered: 2025-01-06

Posts: 12

Re: Adding padding or margins to panels that are positioned

Thank you Toz, I will test with it.