Make "Favorites" entry smaller

[jamjar]

I am referring to the Favorites in the menu accessible from the Manjaro logo at the bottom-left corner of the monitor.

An aside: In Windows, the equivalent is called “Start menu” I believe. What is the Manjaro or Linux term for that?

Anyway, the default layout of the Favorites is for each item to have a big icon and two lines (for name and description). That way, after adding ten items, I am already going off the edge, and an eleventh will make me have to scroll.

Question: How can I give a Favorites item a smaller icon and just one line for name? Thanks.

[cscs]

@jamjar

In Windows, the equivalent is called “Start menu” I believe. What is the Manjaro or Linux term for that?

Its not a manjaro/linux thing, but rather an XFCE thing, assuming its using the default one for that desktop environment. If so … then it is called “Whisker Menu”.

[jamjar]

I kind of found the answer to this one.

• Right-click Whisker Menu > Properties > General (tab)
  : Show application descriptions = untick
  : Application icon size = smaller (from small)

For anybody looking for the same thing.

[jamjar]

@cscs

but rather an XFCE thing,

Then each DE has a different name for that? That’s real cute. I suppose the whisker belongs to the mouse at the center of the Xfce desktop.

[cscs]

Yes. KDE has “Kickoff” … and so on.
Just like everything else - it has to be delineated somehow.

@jamjar

I suppose the whisker belongs to the mouse at the center of the Xfce desktop.

Righto.
Heres some extra misc info for your enjoyment:

Per the FAQ, the logo of Xfce is “a mouse, obviously, for all kinds of reasons like world domination and monsters and such.” In the SuperTuxKart game, in which various open source mascots race against each other, the mouse is said to be a female named “Xue”.