Hi there. I have installed lxle on an old machine, and I love it. Only thing that bugs me is the size of the icons. Too big... I was able to reduce/change the font underneath, but is there a way to change the size of the icon itself? Thanks in advance.

you think "Ubuntu builder" can help?

It lets you build your own customized Linux Distribution

I've tried tips from other ubuntu spins; they do not work. lxle seems to be very special. But I'll research ubuntu builder and see what I come up with. Thanks.

I am sorry to be a bit short in this reply but this sounds silly to me.

Lxde is basically OpenBox. You can configure anything in OB.

I am not a strong OB user. Have a couple of installs with it but can't use them now as my tower died and I am now on this antique 32bit laptop (no wifi but connections for both dsl and dial up!! Woo Hoo) so I can't boot to them and try a cure.

Those sizes are set in some config file somewhere. Places I would check would be in your "hidden" files in your /home/<user name> directory, also hidden files in /root (home directory for the user root), /etc/skel where general config files for all users is sometimes put but I don't think it is in the Ubuntu family but check there, /etc/xdg (there may be an OpenBox directory under that), /usr/share and look for an OpenBox directory there. Being an Ubuntu family member god only knows what the stuff will be under but the Lubuntu guys are the cream of the crop there currently so they probably are not screwing with the basic OB file system.

Another thing you could try is to boot to your login screen and go to the session option box in the login box and choose openbox session instead of the Lubuntu or Lxde or whatever they call it. That will give you the straight up OpenBox session and it may be easier to find a tool to fix this in the openbox menu.

For that matter you should get desktop option in lxde by right clicking on the desktop. This is how you access all menus in OpenBox.

Ubuntu repos should have a package named obconf. Make sure it is installed and see what it will do. OB is your window manager. That OB is not a DE. I don't think lxde is actually a DE. It just runs OB. Therefore obconf should be of some help.

If there is nothing you can find there see if you can find a vetran user of OB. You can build a script for anything, put it in your ~./openbox/start directory and have the thing run at boot up. This would include the size of the icons. That would be, to me, a silly way to do it and I know very well that some OB user would change the size of just about anything in their sleep.

I am not a big fan of Lxde. The Lubuntu team has put out the best OTB version I have seen.

The Manjaro OpenBox version is better.

I think any OB is better as long as you have an OB user to go to for help and know that you access all menus with the right click on the desktop.

I like Xfce but if it gets as crazy as some DEs have recently I know that I will be going to OB. Mainly because, while you need to learn where the files are, you can configure anything at all in it relatively easily.

Thanks, widget, for all that info. I'll work on this and see if I can find a solution. I always consider my OS a work in progress.