Window borders very large

[Andrew Conkling]

Some time ago (probably on Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:42:48 -0700 (PDT))
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> had occasion to say the
following:

>    My installation is xfce-4.0.6 on Slackware-10.0 and is viewed on a
>    17" LCD
> monitor at 1280x1024 pixel resolution.
> 
>    Certain applications -- which use their own windows and do not run
>    in a
> virtual terminal -- have very large menu bars. For example, LyX. The
> text is the same size as it used to be under xfce-3.8.18 on a crt
> monitor running at 1024x768 pixel resolution, but the window borders
> are much wider. I'm running the same version of LyX so I suppose this
> is an xfce issue.
> 
>    Is there a command that will make the window borders smaller on
> applications such as LyX, OpenOffice.org, VMware and others?

Have you tried changing your xfwm4 theme (in Settings | Window Manager)?