I'm a long time Linux user and a recent convert to FluxBox. I have added icons to my FluxBox menu but the icons are showing up too small. I have been trying to find a setting I can add to my overlay file to change that but I'm stumped. I tried menu.itemHeight but that seems to have zero effect on my menus. I tried menu.frame.font in hopes that it might resize with the font but not only did the icon stay tiny but the menu did not resize to accommodate the larger font which made the whole menu almost unusable. I tried changing things like the menu border (menu.borderWidth) but that didn't help. I'm stumped. Are there any FluxBox experts who might be able to suggest other things I should check to get the icons in my menu to display larger? If I need to increase the size of the font that's fine too (although I'd rather not). Thank you in advance for your suggestions.

- Eric

Could there be something in one of FluxBox's other files that limits the size of each menu item in some way? I looked through the style I am using but I didn't see anything there. I snuck a peak into the init and startup files but don't see anything there. I'm not sure where else to look and Googling this doesn't lead to any answers. The best I found was a suggestion that the size of the icon is tied to the size of the font which doesn't seem right since increasing the font size doesn't increase the space allocated to the menu item as a whole...it just causes part of the font to overlap the items above and below it.

quick thought:
if you use itemheight, it will override fontsize.
remove itemheight, and try to adjust iconsize via fontsize.
also consider padding values.

more detailed:
fluxbox wiki and man pages are good and cover everything.
on this page: http://fluxbox.org/help/ you should read every man page; fluxbox-style seems most relevant.(*)
if you want to override a value, you need to be very specific, e.g. window.*.border will NOT override window.focused.border.

(*) the layout of the site is broken. if you "view source" you get properly formatted code.
but it should be the same as the installed man pages, anyway.

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Good to know. I removed itemHeight (and commented out one in the style) and changed the size of my font... Same issue. Still, thank you for the info.

Padding values...for menus? Any idea where I would find info on padding values as they pertain to FluxBox menus? The fluxbox-style man page has nothing on padding menus. I found info on padding for other parts of FluxBox but not for the menus.

Minor correction... The wiki and the man pages are good and cover almost everything. I've read through all of them I can find several times and still can't find a solution to this.

I'm almost beginning to wonder if there might be a bug in FluxBox 1.35 (what I'm using). Before I assume that I'm going to do a grep of every file under my user directory and every file under /usr/share/fluxbox to see if I can find any other instance of menu.itemHeight hiding anywhere it shouldn't be. Thank you for your suggestions. At least they let me know I'm looking at the right things.

- Eric

^ fwiw i totally agree that fluxbox has weird, dark, undocumented corners.
a bug? also possible. i suggest you join the mailing list and ask, and look at existing bugs, before filing one.

@ciresnave: You might consider searching the VSIDO forums. VSIDO uses fluxbox by default. Just keep in mind that VSIDO uses Debian Unstable.