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advice1010

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Registered: 2023-02-19

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Whisker Menu - How to hide magnifying glass from search field

I apologize, another instance where I cannot get GTK Inspector to generate the results I am looking for.

I tried using it to inspect the Whisker Menu

GTK_DEBUG=interactive xfce4-popup-whiskermenu

The above command just launches the Whisker Menu but the GTK Inspector does not open with it.
Maybe because it is a plugin it is not possible?

I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to hide/remove the "Magnifying Glass" icon found in the search field?  I assume this would require CSS to achieve this.

If anyone has any ideas please let me know.
Thank You

Side Note:
If anyone knows how to get Whisker Menu to work with GTK Inspector, I would also be interested if anyone has any information to share about this as well.

Last edited by advice1010 (2025-09-22 23:12:42)

ToZ

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Re: Whisker Menu - How to hide magnifying glass from search field

Side Note:
If anyone knows how to get Whisker Menu to work with GTK Inspector, I would also be interested if anyone has any information to share about this as well.

First, make sure the inspector's keybinding is enabled:

gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.Debug enable-inspector-keybinding true

Then, click once to open the whiskermenu, then press Ctrl+Shift+i to open the inspector. However, its going to be difficult to see the whisker style classes in the popup window.

I was wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to hide/remove the "Magnifying Glass" icon found in the search field?  I assume this would require CSS to achieve this.

This hack should do it:

#whiskermenu-window .search-area entry image {-gtk-icon-transform: scale(0); margin-left: -20px}

Also see: https://gottcode.org/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/theme/.

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advice1010

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Registered: 2023-02-19

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Re: Whisker Menu - How to hide magnifying glass from search field

@ToZ
Wow thank you.
I would not have been able to figure this out
I was able to try out the CSS you provided and this appears to work great.
I think it looks nice

CSS + XFCE continues to confuse me.
I was using this name with a dot prefix which changes Whisker font size, which works

.whiskermenu { font-size: 16pt }

The code you mention uses the following for the name, which also works

#whiskermenu-window

Thank you for that link, I never found this in any of my searches before.
Nice of the developer to create something like this, wish more developers would provide similar information for their applications.

I was also able to test the hotkey activation command you mentioned.
I still do not understand GTK Inspector that much but after activating this hotkey, I was able to at least get GTK Inspector to register with Whisker.
I still have to test this out more, but thank you for this as well because it appears to work.

Thanks again for all of this great information, very helpful.
Hopefully this will help other users as well in the future.

Last edited by advice1010 (2025-09-26 18:52:10)