Oversized menu icons

**Zvlwab** · November 6th, 2012

When I click on the Xfce4 menu, there are 2 icons that are larger than the other icons, which makes them render on top of other menu items. To be specific, they are Lone Survivor installed using software center and a custom Eclipse launcher using the eclipse icon provided by eclipse as downloadable on their website.

I have this issue since I did a fresh install of Xubuntu 12.10. I did not have this problem when running Xubuntu 12.04 with Xfce4.10 from the ppa.

**eev2** · December 14th, 2012

I have exactly the same problem. The icons for eclipse and gv.

**Toz** · December 15th, 2012

gv seems to use a 50x50 pixmap as an icon. Have a look at the file /usr/share/applications/gv.desktop which states:

Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/gv_icon.xpm

To fix this, you could change the icon to /usr/share/pixmaps/mini-gv.xpm (also included in the gv package)

Code:

Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/mini-gv.xpm

...or any other icon file by editing the desktop file as root:

Code:

gksu leafpad /usr/share/applications/gv.desktop

The same might apply to eclipse. Have a look at /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop.

**eev2** · December 15th, 2012

Of you can do this but the point is that before the update the big icons were scaled to the correct size. I explicitly set in my .gtkrc-2.0 and .config/xfce4/.../xsettings.xml that I want 16x16 sizes but it doesn't obbey that.