Is it possiblle to shrink icons?

[patrox]

Hi!
I want to make my GUI much smaller to get a more clean interface. The text is easy to make smaller, but the icons at toolbars and panels, is it possible to make them smaller?

Edit:
I should mention that I'm using Gnome, sorry.

/ Patrik

[bob]

Right-click on a bar and choose 'properties', which will allow you to increase or decrease both the width of the bar and the size of the icons. Also, clicking on a particular icon and choosing 'stretch' will allow you to grow or shrink it.

[patrox]

I've got problems with the Menu bar-applet, it's can't be less than 24 px high, any workarounds?

[bob]

Why not just 'auto-hide'?

[patrox]

I don't like the auto-hide option in Gnome because then there is a bar with a height of 1 px left visible, which I think is disturbing. However, did you say it was possible to change size of toolbar-icons?

[bob]

If there is, I don't know of any. Sorry.

[sideways]

Run at a higher resolutiuion.

If you're at max resolution there's little point shrinking the menubar (which I don't think is possible without code hacks)

Have you checked the dpi Resolution setting in Look and Feel -> Appearance -> Fonts -> Details, it should usually be ~96 (If you change it reboot for full effect)

[patrox]

I found answer to my question:
Add these line to make all icons 16x16 in /usr/share/themes/<theme>/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

gtk-icon-sizes = "mini-commander-icon=16,16rint-manager=16,16anel-button=16,16:gtk-dnd=16,16:gtk-menu=16,16anel-menu=16,16:gtk-large-toolbar=16,16:gtk-small-toolbar=16,16:gtk-button=16,16:gtk-dialog=16,16"

To change the height of the main-menu you have to resize the start-here.png image in
/usr/share/icons/Fedora/24x24/places folder to 16x16 then reload the icon-theme and then it is possible to have a panel with a height of 19 px.

This is reported as a bug(the main-menu problem) you can follow it here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537661

Edit: sorry for all it should be : p without a space....

/ Patrik

[PabloTwo]

As for completely "hiding" the panel(s) using autohide in Gnome, that can be done. I'm now in F8/XFCE, but back when I was in FC6/Gnome I used gconf-editor to set the minimum panel size to zero (0), which will leave no evidence of it's existance on the screen when it's hidden. I can't recall the exact place to navigate to now in gcong-editor to accomplish that, but for anyone interested in pursuing that, you'll figure it out.

[patrox]

The only option I can find is the auto_hide_size which I have set to 0 but it still is 1 px left, probably I can change it in a gtkrc file, I haven't look it up.

[PabloTwo]

I also recall that there were two different places in the gconf-editor, basically duplicating the same settings for the panels. When I edited the first I found, there was no change. When I found the second place with essentially the same settings and edited, it worked. Hacking around in gtkrc files would be another approach. I do that to customize themes.