Set arbitrary size for calendar

[jamjar]

I am on Stable Branch and use Xfce.

Is there some way to adjust the size of the calendar (the one that pops up when you click the time and date on Panel)?

The size seems to depend on the theme. Mine is somewhat senselessly small.

[soundofthunder]

As you say…

@jamjar

The size seems to depend on the theme

However, your general scale can also play a part.

• Settings → Display → General: Scale

There is also:

• Settings → Appearance → Settings: Window Scaling
  however, this might not produce the results you hope for.

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As always, your system information might be useful;
plus details of the monitor(s) you are using.

inxi -zv8

Regards.

[jamjar]

@soundofthunder

Settings → Display → General: Scale

I was hoping I could only resize the calendar (the way you might resize an app window). The scaling (or the general proportion of things, or their relation to the monitor) is just fine.

[soundofthunder]

@jamjar

I was hoping I could only resize the calendar (the way you might resize an app window)

This is how the Calendar should normally appear in Manjaro XFCE, assuming the default theme; as you can see, it’s a reasonable size.

XFCE Calendar with default Manjaro theme

How does yours differ?

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Without editing or replacing the theme, I’m not sure how you would achieve that. Often, a calendar theme might be included as part of a global theme of some kind, for example – trial and error, I’m afraid, unless someone can suggest a specific theme.

As you can see, there is no obvious way to change it via the calendar GUI;

panel-plugins:orage:start [Xfce Docs]

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There may be other Calendar plugins that suit you better – pantheon-calendar is one example I was fond of for a minute.

This is how pantheon-calendar looks on Fedora (30) – it’s a part of the Pantheon Desktop here, but it at least gives an indication of what is possible:

Big enough?

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A few theme sites here on the chance the Calendar is more to your liking in some random theme; I can only wish you (pot) luck:

Top 10 Best Themes for Xfce Desktop

11 Themes to Make Xfce Look Modern and Beautiful

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Perhaps you might find something useful at:

• XFCE forum: Calendar

Regards.

[Teo]

This is one of the things i did not like in xfce but i just accepted the micro-calender until now and never though of customizing it.
After some research, it seems to be easily possible.

If you do not have one already, create

~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

Add inside:

calendar {
    font-size: 14pt; /* Adjust as needed */
    padding: 15px; /* Adjust as needed */
}

And re-login.

[jamjar]

@Teo

calendar {
    font-size: 14pt; /* Adjust as needed */
    padding: 15px; /* Adjust as needed */
}

This worked.

Only, the padding got applied to week number differently; so I just unticked it.

Thanks!