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How to change the height of various toolbars in an Opera skin?

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 Published April 6th, 2009 5:59 AM EDT By Tamil

The height of toolbars in current default skin is large compared to previous default skin and it can be reduced to increase browsing space.

Create a backup of your current skin# or the skin you want to change the height of toolbars.

  1. Extract skin.ini from zipped skin file.
  2. Reduce the values of Padding Top and Padding Bottom under the sections mentioned in the following table. You can also specify negative values.
    Toolbar Section
    Menu bar [Menu Button Skin]
    Main bar [Mainbar Skin]
    Personal bar [Personalbar Skin]
    Tab bar [Pagebar Button Skin]
    Address bar [Addressbar Skin]
    Navigation bar [Navigationbar Skin]
    View bar [Viewbar Skin]
    Status bar [Statusbar Skin]
  3. Update skin.ini in zipped skin file. You can’t update an active skin.
  4. Activate modified skin from Tools > Appearance… > Skin.

See Opera Skinning article to know more about basics of skinning Opera.

# To see path to current skin file, select opera:config#Button%20Set and click go to web address from right click menu.

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  1. 1 pollaki Apr 6th, 2009 at 6:47 am
    using Opera Opera 10.00 on Windows Windows XP

    Great!!!

  2. 2 godjonez Apr 6th, 2009 at 9:22 am
    using Opera Opera 10.00 on Windows Windows XP

    Thanks!

  3. 3 tratamente Apr 7th, 2009 at 5:47 am
    using Opera Opera 9.64 on Windows Windows XP

    nice tip ! thanks

  4. 4 Gar811 Apr 12th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
    using Nokia Nokia 5310

    Hope this works!!!

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