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Lanavishnu

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Registered: 2026-07-11

Posts: 3

XfceWindowMenuPlugin

I don't have an space on my minimal panel bar dedicated to open windows. I figure, let's just use the WindowMenu panel plugin and have a handy popup for the list.

Documentation says:

Style Properties

You can set a custom icon size in gtk-icon-sizes with the name panel-window-menu. The default icon size is 16px. Note that the window icons are 16 or 32 pixels, all other sizes will result in scaling. Special widget name in this plugin is windowmenu-button.

And shows some styling examples that don't confirm to that approach:

* { -XfceWindowMenuPlugin-ellipsize-mode: PANGO_ELLIPSIZE_MIDDLE; }
* { -XfceWindowMenuPlugin-max-width-chars:64; }
* { -XfceWindowMenuPlugin-minimized-icon-lucency:25; }

So, I want those 32px icons and haven't stumbled on the right incantation. I have a 4K TV as my main monitor and my old eyes find the 16px icons a wee bit squint inducing. I also read that gtk-icon-sizes is long since deprecated. Can't find any other thing on the whole wide interweb.

My other ambition is to do the same with the xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu. I use that all the time and squint at it every time. Us olds need some accessibility consideration here?

iketamarin

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Registered: 2026-07-16

Posts: 2

Re: XfceWindowMenuPlugin

From what I've found, the gtk-icon-sizes setting mentioned in the docs is basically a relic from older GTK versions and doesn't seem to have much effect anymore with current XFCE/GTK stacks. I never managed to get the Window Menu plugin to use 32px icons consistently. In the end, I increased the panel size and enabled display scaling, which helped more than trying to override the icon size.

Lanavishnu

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Registered: 2026-07-11

Posts: 3

Re: XfceWindowMenuPlugin

I had pretty much come to the same conclusion. My real beef though is with the xfce4-popup-applicationsmenu. Same issue but I use that all the time and oof so small on the 4K TV I use as my main monitor. In the end, my fix was to increase my default font size, making the applications menu 12 pt instead of 10. It's a fix and I can avoid squinting at my screen and I'm moving on to actual things I need to focus on.