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emil2007

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Registered: 2017-03-29

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Decrease the size of alt+tab thumbnails?

Is there a way to decrease the size of the windows thumbnails when switching with alt+tab? They are too big. I am using manjaro xfce.

ToZ

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Re: Decrease the size of alt+tab thumbnails?

Try this: Add the following to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:

#xfwm-tabwin {
   -XfwmTabwinWidget-icon-size: 24px;
   -XfwmTabwinWidget-preview-size: 48px; }

...and adjust the px sizes to suit. Supported min/max values are:

• icon-size: 24 / 128

• preview-size: 48 / 512

Make sure you restart xfwm4 or log out and back in again to test.

You can also change the previews to list mode via Settings Manager > Window Manager Tweaks > Cycling, and select "Cycle through windows in a list".

Note that the size of the window previews also changes dynamically based on the number of open windows and your screen size/real estate.

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emil2007

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Registered: 2017-03-29

Posts: 25

Re: Decrease the size of alt+tab thumbnails?

Thanks, it worked.

kazam0180

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Registered: 2025-09-07

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Re: Decrease the size of alt+tab thumbnails?

Thanks, it worked.

Mark as [SOLVED] maybe?

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