Can't adjust launcher icon size

Jim Byrnes jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Fri Feb 7 16:52:24 UTC 2014


On 02/07/2014 04:14 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On 02/06/2014 04:13 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>> On 02/06/2014 09:24 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> If you are using Unity 3D it is a standard option in Settings >
>>>>> Appearance. If you are using Unity 2D then it does not use compiz so
>>>>> the compiz one is not going to work. Not sure whether the others will
>>>>> work with 2D or not.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, but the smallest it goes is 32, same for CompizConfig and MyUnity.
>>>> Found that I don't have UbuntuTweak installed so I don't know about that
>>>> one.
>>>
>>>
>>> 32 is a strange limit. I use
>>>
>>> gsettings set
>>> org.compiz.unityshell:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/plugins/unityshell/
>>> icon-size 16
>>>
>>> to set it to 16.
>>
>> I'm not much of a command line user, so when I try that command and I get
>> the response: "No such schema 'org.compiz.unityshell'", I'm not sure how to
>> proceed.
>
> I'm sorry, I should've qualified my answer.
>
> It works on 14.04, 13.10, and 13.04.
>
> It works on 12.10 for values >=32.
>
> For 12.04, you have to use gconftool-2. I've forgotten the invocation
> and, AFAIR, it'll only work for values >=32.
>

OK, thanks for the clarification.  I have 13.10 on my laptop and that's 
were it will do the most good anyway.

Regards,  Jim





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