I have Debian with Cinnamon and a vertical panel with applets. The width of the panel is maximum and when I allow the option “Allow cinnamon to scale panel text and icons according to panel width”, I get all applets of a normal size except for the clock/date applet. This one is going over the edges of the panel.

I was trying to adjust the size of the clock applet.

In /usr/share/cinnamon/theme/cinnamon.css file I increased value of font-size parameter in #panel section to 12 pt. I also unticked the option “Allow cinnamon to scale panel text and icons according to panel width” in Panel settings. This caused that the clock/date applet is completely visible, but the other icons are too small. Do you know how to adjust the size/font size of this applet only so that I see it on the panel, while the other applet icons remain big?

Thanks for the help

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Either user linustalmann or RandomTroll had the exact same question recently, try to find threads they started.
Short answer: pango.