Setting font size for panel items on Trisquel Mini 11
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Right-click on the panel, select "Panel settings", go to the "Appearance" tab and adjust font size to your comfort.
Note that changes will take effect immediately on the clock applet text for date and time, but will be apparent on the window list only after clicking on its items. The default value is 8, which is 2 to 3 points lower than the other default system font settings. You can also untick the custom panel font size checkbox, which will set it to a default value defined elsewhere.
It took me quite a while to find out adjust fonts after swapping monitors between a Trisquel Mini 11 system and a Trisquel 11 MATE system. The "new" screen to be used for Mini had a higher resolution than the previous one, which made the smaller fonts appear even smaller. Trying to play with dpi/ppi did not achieve much, beyond discovering that the dpi value can easily be modified in the MATE Appearance GUI tool (clicking on "Details" under the Font tab). On LXDE you need to create or append the '.Xresouces' file in your home directory and add this parameter there: 'Xft.dpi: 102' or whatever value fits better than the default 96.
> '.Xresouces'
Not. That should read '.Xresources'.
In a terminal: $ echo 'Xft.dpi: 102' >> ~/.Xresources
Some further Mini stories for the little people (and for future reference)
Openbox has its own titlebar style/theme that uses xbm file as button icons, which is independent from the LXDE desktop theme. Someone created an Openbox theme based on the latest Mint themes, so my current idea is to use that as a template and adapt legacy Mint themes to Openbox.
https://github.com/jr20xx/Mint-O-Themes/tree/main/templates/buttons
https://openbox.org/help/Themes#Button_images
I am only doing this because I got addicted to one of these legacy themes, and I think LXDE+Openbox can easily benefit from improved theme integration. I have already modified the themerc file for Trisquel Dark in order to increase the height of the title bar (vertical padding), which makes windows visually more relaxed and more comfortable to manipulate for mouse users, and to change the look of the "Close" button to make it fit that legacy theme. WIP.