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How can I reduce the size of the windows icons in the xfce4-panel taskbar?

I've reduced the height of my xfce4-panel from 20px to 16px and now the icons in the taskbar are truncated by one or two pixels at the top and the bottom instead of having a smaller size.

I've tried some changes in my .gtkrc-2.0 file but it didn't work.

Does anyone know how to do do this?

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By which I assume you mean adding the line gtk-icon-sizes = "gtk-menu=22,16" or similar? Which version of XFCE and/or what distribution are you running? – eMansipater Apr 24 '11 at 1:41
Yup that's the kind of things I tried. It's xfce4-panel 4.6.4-1 from Debian testing. – p4bl0 Apr 24 '11 at 2:13
Ahh--that explains it. Posting answer now. – eMansipater Apr 24 '11 at 2:30

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In xfce4-panel 4.6 this setting can be changed from the terminal with the command

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p '/Gtk/IconSizes' -s 'gtk-menu=16,16'

Or, from the Settings Editor you can go to xsettings -> Gtk, then select IconSizes, click on the Edit property icon and enter gtk-menu=16,16 or other desired size in Value :.

Just as a heads up and for future reference, this changes again for xfce-panel 4.8 where different panels and menus are adjusted separately; so you will need to set /Gtk/IconSizes to something like panel-applications-menu=16,16:gtk-menu=16,16:panel-directory-menu=16,16 depending on your needs.

From here and here.

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Thanks for your time! So I had to create the property with xfconf-query -c xsettings -n -p '/Gtk/IconSizes' -t string -s 'gtk-menu=12,12' but it doesn't seem to have any effet, even if I kill xfce4-panel and spawn it again. I also tried what you suggested for v4.8 but it didn't have any effect either. – p4bl0 Apr 24 '11 at 3:23
@p4bl0 You will actually have to restart xfce as a whole to see the change, I believe. There may also be a minimum size for the icons, though I don't know what it is. One way to check this would be to set the numbers very large and then progressively lower them. – eMansipater Apr 24 '11 at 3:26
I don't have xfce installed, only its panel. I tried to set a bigger size and to relaunch it again, it had no effect :-/. It seems what I want is impossible... Thanks for your time anyway! – p4bl0 Apr 24 '11 at 3:30
@p4bl0 you might have to restart GNOME or your window manager whatever it is--and/or the whole computer. It seems unlikely to me that this value doesn't exist anywhere. – eMansipater Apr 24 '11 at 3:40
I restarted Openbox (my window manager, I don't have any desktop environment) and even logout/login but it didn't had any effect with all the value I tried (12,12 which is what I want, but also 10,10 and 30,30). It seems unlikely that rebooting will be of any help but I'll try later, just in case. – p4bl0 Apr 24 '11 at 9:49
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