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j2496i

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Registered: 2012-04-23

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Changing icon size for one panel only [Arch + XFCE4 DE]

Hi,

Another question that I've so far been unable to resolve:  Does anyone know if it's possible to affect icon size for a single panel only?  If I change the panel size, all icons remain at the same size.  I am trying to achieve a panel that has large icons and displays all running applications, without affecting the menu/icon size for other menus and panels.

My guess is that it must be possible to set a variable somewhere, that will be private or local to the panel that I want to affect, though I have so far been unable to find out how I would go about this.  I do not want to change the size of all menu and panel icons globally...

Is there a variable / name that I can use is Applications -> Settings -> Settings Editor ... ->... xfce4-panel -> panels -> panel-2 ?

Alternatively, can I modify gtkrc to implement the change?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Julian

Last edited by j2496i (2012-04-23 17:56:29)

j2496i

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Re: Changing icon size for one panel only [Arch + XFCE4 DE]

I should add that all I have on the panel is the 'window buttons' item.  If I resize other panels, such as the panel containing my 'applications menu' and 'logoff' buttons, they enlarge as you would expect - it is only the panel containing the window buttons that will not resize correctly...

J

Last edited by j2496i (2012-04-23 17:38:02)

secipolla

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Re: Changing icon size for one panel only [Arch + XFCE4 DE]

I'm not sure if I got what you're looking for but you can, for instance, enlarge the panel and put the window buttons in two rows, I think. Like in http://www-test.xfce.org/about/tour
-edit- I think the window buttons automatically stack depending on the panel width.

Last edited by secipolla (2012-04-23 18:02:40)

j2496i

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Re: Changing icon size for one panel only [Arch + XFCE4 DE]

Secipolla,

Thanks for replying.  What I'm actually aiming to do is to modify the icon size for each 'button' on the 'windows-buttons item, so that I can have large buttons/icons for just that panel.  Similar to as is described in the following link:

http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/tasklist

... as far as I can tell, the above method will affect a global change, whereas I would like to be specific to the single panel that I am using.   I don't know if this is possible, but my instincts tell me that it should be - I'm not yet certain how though... I have a lot more exploring to do...

J

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Re: Changing icon size for one panel only [Arch + XFCE4 DE]

Hint, each plugin has a unique id which you can see when you hover it in the item editor in the panel preferences.

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