xfce » xfce4-panel » tasklist / Window Buttons: set custom font

Question

I'd like to change the font size of the entries for each application listed by the "tasklist" plugin. Is there any way to do that?

I thought this site would help: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/tasklist . But it does not mention font sizing and also not the place of the config file.

Answer 1

until 18.04

• Open / Create ~/.gtkrc-2.0
  • Here you can set all kinds of specific styles

• Insert the following code:

  style "window-buttons"
  {
      font_name = "Arial 17"
      XfceTasklist::max-button-size = 32
  }
  

• restart your panel: xfce4-panel -r

explanation

• style Window-Buttons is used by the widget(?) "Window-Buttons", which is the name for the tasklist. I found this information here
• XfceTasklist::max-button-size = 32 changes the button size (if you miss that, text will be cropped on the top and bottom. Information here
• If you want to change all sizes instead, see this link
• General rc-file information is here

from 18.10

You need to use gtk3. I couldn't get it to work here, but apparently you use the file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css Here is an information page (that doesen't work for me right now)