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11-09-2016, 01:09 PM
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Thunar - Increase Spacing Between Icons
Hi
Please check attached screenshot for reference.
I am using xfce desktop and this is icon view in thunar file manager. As you see that the spacing between icons is very small. Please guide me that how can I increase this spacing.
Regards
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11-09-2016, 01:58 PM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Melbourne
Distribution: Slackware64-15.0
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You can use the Ctrl + mouse wheel combination to change the icon size when in Thunar icon view.
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11-09-2016, 10:07 PM
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Ctrl +
increase icon size, but it does not increase spacing between them.
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11-10-2016, 02:34 PM
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Registered: Dec 2013
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which default view have you chosen?
if that doesn't help then you can only change it through gtk theme or settings overrides in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (if thunar still uses gtk2).
Last edited by ondoho; 11-10-2016 at 02:35 PM.
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11-11-2016, 04:10 AM
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I am using "icon view" in thunar preferences. XFCE is using gtk-2.0
I used following settings in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file, but it is not changing icon spacing:
Code:
XfdesktopIconView::cell-spacing = 6
XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 6
XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 2.5
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11-11-2016, 12:00 PM
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what you showed us in post #1 are not desktop icons, and its not xfdesktop but thunar.
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11-12-2016, 02:14 AM
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My first post says:
Quote:
This is icon view in thunar file manager
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11-12-2016, 08:16 AM
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exactly.
so why are you trying to modify xfdesktop's icon view in post #5?
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11-12-2016, 08:18 AM
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Hmm... I am new to xfce (regularly uses cinnamon), and saw that settings on a forum, so I applied it 
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11-12-2016, 08:18 AM
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I think now the question is irrelavent, as I moved back to cinnamon. However, a fix for those who face the same problem would be helpful.
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