Reduce tray icon padding on Ubuntu with GNOME 3

Question

All of my tray icons have a higher than normal amount of padding on Ubuntu 19.04.

Is there any way to tweak this value?

Maybe this extension helps: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/355/status-area-horizontal-spacing/ — pLumo, May 06 '19 at 10:35

score 21 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 05 '19 at 15:34

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As suggested by @pLumo, 'Status Area Horizontal Spacing' GNOME extension fixed my problem.

edited Nov 05 '19 at 15:34

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answered May 06 '19 at 10:42

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It works wel... but after activating it, you have to hover the mouse over the icons to work. At least it did the trick for me – Alejandro Vera Jul 08 '20 at 20:06
doesn't work on ubuntu 20 without hovering on icons – Kennet Celeste Sep 18 '20 at 20:16

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 05 '19 at 15:32

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Another possibility would be to use Unite Extension which fixes this issue and provides many other improvements for the Unity-lovers.

Unite is a GNOME Shell extension which makes a few layout tweaks to the top panel and removes window decorations to make it look like Ubuntu Unity Shell.

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doesn't work on ubuntu 20 – Kennet Celeste Sep 18 '20 at 20:16

Reduce tray icon padding on Ubuntu with GNOME 3

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