Tiny menu icons (SOLVED)

[D1Knight]

First off, another fine-excellent release! Thank you to TheeMahn, Admins and Testers. O.K. now my (noob) question, the menu icons are too tiny, how do I change the size of them? Thank you for any help.

It is too bad about Xfce & XBMC, oh well, off to the repos. I know it is still way early, but will Ultimate Edition 2.4 be GNOME only? Ultimate Edition 2.5 or Christmas 2009, any plans to include in those releases the Xfce and XBMC options (x86)? I thank you kindly.

[Admin-Amir]

Hello D1Knight.

for 2 of the Q that you have ask,there is no problem of installing them with Ultamatix:




or you can install the XBMC from add remove:



good luck.

[D1Knight]

Hi Amir,

Thank you for the info about Ultamatix, I had forgotten about using it to make the install easier, maybe next time. Do you have advice for changing the size of the menu icons? I appreciate you and your help. Peace.

[Admin-Amir]

Hi D1Knight .

First you welcome,second I thank you for you appreciation for me
that worm my hart to know that, as all the team here on that wonderful site as well.
about the menu to tell you the true I did not had the time yet to look on this issue sorry.
but if I will come up with solution,
I will update you/one of the team will do it faster then me
have A nice day D1Knight and thank you again.

from quick look on the issue you can edit the menu :

Open gconf-editor, press Alt+F2, write "gconf-editor" and press OK.

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I gconf-editor go under
/apps/panel/objects

Now look in all the subfolders, and look for one where the "object_type" is set to "menu-object" or "menu-bar".
If you find a "menu-object" just scoll down to the key "use_custom_icon", set to True, and then edit the key "custom_icon" and insert the path to the icon you want to use.
If you find a "menu-bar" then change the key "object-type" to "menu-object" and then scoll down to the key "use_custom_icon", set to True, and then edit the key "custom_icon" and insert the path to the icon you want to use. This will replace your menu with an icon.
Done.. Does it work?

link:
http://nielssonnich.deviantart.com/art/ ... s-60972943
Peace.

[Moebius]

As an alternative, try this:

1 – Locate the folder of the theme you are currently using. Example : the folder of the theme “Nuvola” in a standard gnome installation under Ubuntu is ‘/usr/share/themes/Nuvola’.

2 – Find the file ‘gtkrc’. If you find more than one gtkrc, choose the one that is “compatible” with the gtk version in use. Example: I used the file ‘/usr/share/themes/Nuvola/gtk-2.0/gtkrc’.

3 – Open the file ‘gtkrc’ with a (simple) text editor (or right click, choose scripts then gedit-root)
Example:’ sudo gedit /usr/share/themes/Nuvola/gtk-2.0/gtkrc ‘.

4 – Edit the line whose first field is gtk-icon-sizes so that the panel-menu field has the icon size that you desire. Example : I modified the line that reads : gtk-icon-sizes = “panel-menu=16,16″
into
gtk-icon-sizes = “panel-menu=24,24″.

5 – Save the gtkrc file and exit.

6 – Logout from your desktop. Log into your desktop. The icons in the menu should have a largerer size.

Worked for me - but I prefer the smaller size

Hope it helps.

[Moebius]

Goes to show that Taswegians have double the brain power (2heads)

Great How To Moebius [/quote]

Love to take the credit, but I've simply tested and modified a Debian post to suit. That scar on my neck is really starting to etch (play on words)

[D1Knight]

Hello Amir and Moebius,

I thank you both kindly for your help & suggestions. I chose Moebius's "How to", this seemed to be more Noob user friendly (IMHO). Moebius, your process worked perfectly and easy too. Thanks again! Now I can see the icons like in Ultimate Edition 2.2 (just right for me). Peace.

[Moebius]

Hi D1knight,
Glad it helped. All suggestions and solutions are good as there is always more than one way to get to where you're going.