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TimoP

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 2

[Solved] Bigger menu text and icons?

I do not see very well anymore and I need a little bit help with desktop settings. How to make menu icons and menu text bigger? I use Xubuntu 12.04 alpha and XFCE 4.8. sincerely Timo
ps. I am ex-GNOME 2 user. I think that there will be more newcomers with XFCE in the future. Sorry simple english.

angstrom

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Registered: 2011-08-13

Posts: 267

Re: [Solved] Bigger menu text and icons?

You can change the font Type and font Size of menus by going in Xfce Settings Manager (xfce4-settings-manager) > Appearance > Fonts > "Default Font"
You can also play with de "DPI" setting.
It will change not only the menu font of Xfce but all gtk's application menu. I don't know how to change specifically the menu font only.

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Xfce is NOT Xubuntu. Bugs in Xubuntu don't mean that Xfce is buggy ...

wtsch

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Registered: 2010-06-09

Posts: 27

Re: [Solved] Bigger menu text and icons?

xsettings.xml

<property name="IconSizes" type="string" value="gtk-menu=16,16:gtk-button=20,20:panel-applications-menu=24,24:panel-directory-menu=24,24"/>

TimoP

Member

Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] Bigger menu text and icons?

Thank you very much wtsch and angstrom. Worktable fonts are bigger now. I needed a little bit help from our native forum how to mod xsettins.xml. It is quite simple - now I know how to do it. As you can see I need quite big icons to see them. I show my xsettings.xml if somebody else need help.
Short how to:
- select in Thunar "Show hidden files"
- navigate as I did  /home/timo/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xsettings.xml with Thunar
- open with Leafpad
- copy wtschs code and paste it to line started with  <property name="IconSizes" type="string"   
- save file
- test menu icons sizes
   
    <property name="IconSizes" type="string" value="gtk-menu=24,24:gtk-button=24,24:panel-applications-menu=32,32:panel-directory-menu=32,32"/>

Now I am very happy with XFCE.

johnywhy

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 288

Re: [Solved] Bigger menu text and icons?

I selected a different font in Appearance > Fonts, but the Whiskermenu fonts didn't change.

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Clio

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Registered: 2011-01-25

Posts: 101

Re: [Solved] Bigger menu text and icons?

... first prize for gravediggers ...