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

    • Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      hey there, i tried messing with that setting multiple times and never got results. it's likely user error, but who knows

  • wvstolzing@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    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.

    • Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      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.

  • 0x4E4F@infosec.pub
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    8 months ago

    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.

    • Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      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

      • 0x4E4F@infosec.pub
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        8 months ago

        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 😔.

        • Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml
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          8 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

          • 0x4E4F@infosec.pub
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            8 months ago

            Xfce is cool, I use it on all my installs. But than again, I have never tinkered with themes that much or tray icons 🤷.

            Try Void if you're not too afraid of the terminal 😁. The repo is pretty good and stuff mostly works out of the box. If they don't, you just need to configure them correctly.

            • Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml
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              8 months ago

              I may give Linux Lite a try, which is of course xfce based. Void I hear is very good, but after researching it a bit, I feel it's more complicated or advanced than what it appears. more for like advanced users that really know how to work linux. i'm more intermediate.

              • 0x4E4F@infosec.pub
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                8 months ago

                Yeah, it's more for advanced users.

                The funny thing is though, I wasn't as advanced when I jumped ship, but I never felt lost in it either. Like with Ubuntu and similar distros, things are fairly simple, but once you start getting nitty gritty with the system, start tinkering and whatnot, things just start not working. Like I was banging my head why this particular app just can't access the internet, when all of the time it was ufw that was blocking it 😒.

                What really pissed me off was the sheer number of apps that got installed allongside the main sustem. Like LibreOffice, maybe I didn't want that installed on my system. And systemd seemed way too slugush and buggy for my taste, I really wanted something simpler and very easy to configure and run. So Void fit in there perfectly. Just xfce with some basic apps and plugins, that's it.

                Also, one of the main reasons why I bailed ship regarding conventional distros was dependency hell. You try and compile from source and there is always some dependency that's outdated and just doesn't compile 😒. This really really pissed me off, cuz I wanted to use the rig for, let's say encoding, but the x265 lib in the repos was outdated. I wanted the latest, cuz I also wanted to test the progress of x265... things like this really grind my gears and I decided that conventional distros are probably not for me.