These darn icons are pissing me off and there’s not a whole lot i can find in the settings. So on the right sys tray, the bluetooth and network icons are perfect; that’s how I want ever icon to be; perfectly sized, it’s clear and detailed, it looks proper; same with the date and clock. The notification, wifi, and battery look awful. they’re huge and bloated and there’s no details to them. now the left side, everything is incredibly small and way to far spaced. How can I configure this darn tray to look PROPER??? thanks
You mention ‘the settings’; though it’s ambiguous whether you looked at the desktop’s, wm’s, or panel’s settings – the relevant settings are the panel plugins’ own little settings widgets, which you can call from a right click menu on the panel plugins themselves.
It’s a bit convoluted; though that’s the so called ‘trade-off’ for Xfce’s modularity.
Yea, sorry for being so vague, it’s just the only way I know how to describe it. panel edit mode or whatever, because then each icon or tray all have their own settings. but anyway, every DE has their own different ways of editing panels and I honestly don’t have much XFCE experience, so maybe that’s why it’s been more difficult for me to figure out.
The icons you hate are icon set specific. I haven’t tried tinkering with them (I don’t actually use them, most of those plugins that come by default on most distros are removed on my installs), but I think you can change icon sets… or maybe themes (some themes also hold icon sets).
So, basically, you should install new icon sets and/or themes to get new icons and just pick one that you like, unistall the rest. Your default repo should hold most popular themes and icon sets for xfce.
PS: Some things may be inacurate, but I’m not much of a graphical person, I usually use xfce with default settings and maybe Greybird Dark as a theme. I leave everything else to default, whatever the defaults may be.
hey there, i have done that already with both changing themes and icons and that only affects everything else but those few icons that never change. it’s very weird
Hm, that is weird… they should change with the theme…
I don’t know if there is an xfce comm here on Lemmy, but if there is, it’s best to ask there, since this is an xfce specific thing (KDE or other DEs may implement this differently).
EDIT: There is, !xfce@fedia.io, but the last post there is from 4 months ago 😔.
oh it’s all good brother, I could always try another distro in the future or just skip Xfce all together lol. I appreciate your help though
In panel settings , switch off the automatic size for icons that would fix it for you.
I think those icons on the left are in a DockarX panel and you should be able to change its looks by running dbx_preference.
Looks like me what happens when you mix different sets together. No props for Zorin here
