Need help on reducing line spacing in XFCE context menu

jack_the_pirate · 2019-08-16 19:43:03

Hi,

I need help on reducing line spacing in XFCE context menu.

I use many custom actions, so I prefer to less line spacing.
In XFCE 4.10 the line spacing was good.
In XFCE 4.12 the line spacing is bigger and I would like to decrease it.

Can you help?

jack_the_pirate · 2019-08-20 07:51:11

Bump

ToZ · 2019-08-20 10:50:04

For which component of Xfce are you trying to adjust this for and what are the versions of those components (need to confirm that you are using GTK2 versions). Or is it for all menu items in the whole DE?

Assuming gtk2, and assuming you want to do this Xfce-wide, try something like this in ~/.gtkrc-2.0:

style "menu-width"
{
   xthickness = 0
   ythickness = 0
}
widget_class "*<GtkMenuItem>*" style "menu-width"

jack_the_pirate · 2019-08-20 13:43:12

ToZ wrote:

style "menu-width"
{
   xthickness = 0
   ythickness = 0
}
widget_class "*<GtkMenuItem>*" style "menu-width"

This didn't do anything neutral

ToZ wrote:

For which component of Xfce are you trying to adjust this for and what are the versions of those components (need to confirm that you are using GTK2 versions). Or is it for all menu items in the whole DE?

The only thing I am trying to adjust here is the height of my:
Thunar right-click menu

also known as:
Thunar context menu

if appears when you click with your mouse right button inside any folder

it starts with
"Create Folder"
"Create Document"
"Paste"

and afterwards presents all the custom actions, until in the end:
"Zoom in"
"Normal"
"Zoom out"
"Properties"

I use 44 Thunar custom actions.
So, my Thunar right-click menu (or context menu) is big (big height, I mean) because of all the entries in it to each one of my 44 custom actions.

When I was using Debian 8 with XFCE 4.10, the total height of my Thunar right-click menu was big, but acceptable (about 35 centimeters in vertical, in my monitor).

But now that I upgraded to Debian 10 with XFCE 4.12, the total height of my Thunar right-click menu became bigger because of the line spacing between each row of the right-click menu (that includes my custom actions) is now bigger (total height is about 45 centimeters in vertical).
Whereas before the line spacing between each line of the right click menu was about 1 centimeter, now is about 1.2 centimeters.

So, I would like to reduce the line spacing of my Thunar context menu.

How can this be accomplished?

ToZ · 2019-08-20 13:57:34

jack_the_pirate wrote:

So, I would like to reduce the line spacing of my Thunar context menu.
How can this be accomplished?

Which version of Thunar are you using?

thunar -V

Which appearance (gtk) theme are you using?

xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName

jack_the_pirate · 2019-08-20 14:45:34

ToZ wrote:

Which version of Thunar are you using?

$ thunar -V
Thunar 1.8.4 (Xfce 4.12)

ToZ wrote:

Which appearance (gtk) theme are you using?

$ xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Net/ThemeName
Raleigh

ToZ · 2019-08-20 19:00:57

You're using the GTK3 version of Thunar. In that case, the tweaks should go into ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css.

However, I can seem to affect a menu change just for thunar's context menu. The following snippet changes menu padding throughout GTK3:

menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }

The following snippet affects only thunar's menu bar:

menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }

But I cannot figure out how to affect just the context menu. Not sure if it's possible.

jack_the_pirate · 2019-08-21 07:47:34

ToZ wrote:

I can seem to affect a menu change just for thunar's context menu.

I believe you meant:
I can't seem to affect a menu change just for thunar's context menu.

ToZ wrote:

The following snippet changes menu padding throughout GTK3:
menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }
The following snippet affects only thunar's menu bar:
menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }

Thank you for the code, but these two lines are the same.

ToZ · 2019-08-21 08:02:11

Sorry for the errors. The two lines should be:

menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }

...and:

.thunar menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }

jack_the_pirate · 2019-08-24 01:35:26

ToZ wrote:

Sorry for the errors. The two lines should be:
menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }
...and:
.thunar menuitem { padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; }

Thank you, I'll try it.

jack_the_pirate · 2020-01-15 10:04:53

This applies to menu (Alt-F, for exameple), but not right-click menu

ToZ · 2020-01-15 11:37:51

Which right-click menu? In thunar, on the desktop, or in some other app?

jack_the_pirate · 2020-01-15 18:07:18

ToZ wrote:

Which right-click menu? In thunar, on the desktop, or in some other app?

I'm refering to right-clicking in the Desktop.

To ilustrate this issue I will use two screenshots I have posted here:
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=13681

http://imgbox.com/UTVBDzz7 - Debian 9
http://imgbox.com/F2ovH5Kw - Debian 10

Last edited by jack_the_pirate (2020-01-15 18:14:27)

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