How to adjust the icon size in the tray hidden area in KDE?

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My icons in the hidden area of the tray have been so small since some update a good long while ago, i just never got around to looking into it.

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My panel icons and all other icons are fine, its just such a mess in the hidden area.

❱inxi -b
System:
  Host: greg-venusseries Kernel: 6.10.11-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.1.5 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Micro (HK) Tech product: Venus Series v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Shenzhen Meigao Equipment model: AHWSA serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: AHWSA.1.22 date: 03/12/2024
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That’s weird, it seems fine here:

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(by clicking “Show Hidden Icons”).

And my icons are set to small:

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Is this a HiDPI (high resolution) display? I have 1366x768 on this laptop’s built-in display.

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Its 4K , nothing to special, iv tried different icon sets and plasma styles in the settings, & reboot but all look that same.

Its got to be some file setting i need to alter in my home folder somewhere as this is the 3rd system that i have installed Manjaro clean KDE on, imported my home folder and they always look the same.

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That’s also a very likely culprit — have you tried creating a fresh user account to test for this?

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Na, I didn’t want the aggro, If it is the problem then I still have to either figure out exactly which setting file is at fault or migrate over to a new user account without just copying my entire home folder meaning having to rebuild everything which is a real PITA.

I would rather just figure out if anyone knows which conf file needs changing.

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It’s just a temporary thing. What you could do, is copy .dotfiles one by one from your main account to the “test” one, to see which one causes the issue.

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hmm, 100’s just in .config

i just need someone who knows which config folder/file/s control that specific widget.

This is the intent of my post really.

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In that case, there’s the “divide and conquer” approach: copy half across. if it isn’t in that half, undo that and copy half the rest, and so on. This will save a lot of time and effort. :wink:

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Ok, thanks for the suggestion. It would have been my last port of call, but I have kept multiple backups of my home because I’m really lazy :stuck_out_tongue:

I shall see if anyone can point in the right direction, if not then no worries. It’s been that way since plasma 6 update, maybe even before.

Cheers.

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The Plasma 6 update requires you to remove old cache and configs or else … things like this.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Configuration_related

I dont even think that was quite extensive enough but I dont recall what extra things to include.

In this case - I am almost sure it is related to a previously available options for setting icon sizes independently … size for toolbar, size for menus, etc. This option does not exist any more … but maybe you set it at some earlier point?

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In addition to the message by @cscs was the upgrade to Plasma6 done whilst logged out of your Desktop Environment, i.e. in a TTY?

Maybe it’s an icon theme incompatibility?

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I really dont think so, but possible

I did.

As i say, iv tried other icon packs/themes.

I’m not likely to remove all my configs and reset them all up again, that would take ages and I doubt I could even remember half of what I have done to get it how I like it through the past.

No matter, if no one knows which files to look into i shall just leave it. Other things to do.