On 09/01/23 16:49, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Hello.
I've been using XFCE for a long time and I've always had a bottom panel
with "Windows Buttons" on two rows.
I.e.:
Having panel preference: display: row size = 50, number of rows=1,
there were always two rows of windows buttons.
A couple of days ago, I moved from port branch 2022Q4 to 2023Q1, which
brought XFCE 4.18 in.
Now windows button are laid in a single row, unless I increase row size
to at least 64.
I *think* this is due to icon size being too big.
Is there a way to get this back as it was before?
I searched, but found no way.
I have noticed bigger icons also in the launcher application. It does
not bother me too much though, so I did not investigate.
In my case the icons are the same size, but they have bigger margins.
That could be what triggers one row in your case.
This is definitely an upstream change though, since nothing was changed
in the ports with the updates, except for version numbers and some minor
ports Makefile details.
Its difficult to single out the upstream change that could have caused
this, but this one looks related:
https://github.com/xfce-mirror/xfce4-panel/commit/379b015a2c693719fd1df0cf9f8e4e41944fc974
Anyway these buttons are created using GTK3, so the theme in use could
be influencing the size. ALso this means you could try customizing
button size, padding and margin via gtk3 customizations, which work
similar to CSS.
These posts, while not describing exactly your issue, could give you an
idea of what you could do to change sizes to fit your needs:
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=12622
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=13296
(Not sure this is a question to be asked here or on XFCE's mailing
lists; I'll eventually move).
For details on how to configure xfce panel and its plugins you'll need
to ask the xfce guys. They definitely know how their code works better
than me.
--
Guido Falsi <[email protected]>
