Also I might add, with current Geany being GTK3 you can always override the
theme in geany.css.
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As @codebrainz noted above, its a theme issue, Geany follows your theme. The
fact that some of them do it "right" shows that. Having made the decision to
follow the theme, its not anything Geany should do. And all we could really
say in the docs is "Some themes look s**t, complain to the
@eht16 Unfortunately I missed your reply before. It looks right on your system.
I'm attaching screenshots with the issue which is possibly still relevant.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1191893/129065157-3d9c73cf-a15a-4ef6-84f0-99d330d795da.png)
I'm seeing this issue across
Closed #2513.
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Sounds like a duplicate of #1419 and #1600.
Mousepad had [a similar bug](https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15799)
which I investigated and is explained in
https://github.com/shimmerproject/Greybird/pull/248.
TLDR; it's a GTK+ bug that can be and is corrected for in some themes, but not
Would you mind sharing a screenshot?
On my system it looks better than you describe:
![geany_statusbar](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/617017/82756613-b0008480-9dca-11ea-9e49-52780633a087.png)
The actual appearance might be dependent on the GTK theme and version you are
using.
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More or less, the title already says it all. I think Geany's status bar,
implemented in GTK, is too tall. It takes up more than twice the fontsize used
in it - or more than 5% of screen real estate on a 720p monitor, if you look at
it this way. It would be cool to be able to set this size and