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Just what the title says. I found a lot of posts suggesting I edit a gtk2 file in my home directory, but I don't have that file, and those posts were over ten years old. I saw another thing to try where I could add a hidden setting to xfce settings, and that didn't seem to do anything.
I'm not sure where else to go or what else to try. What am I missing?
Last edited by VolumetricSteve (2023-10-30 18:40:58)
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Hello and welcome.
Xfce 4.18 is gtk3 now so you need to add any css tweaks to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css (create the file if it doesn't exist). Specific to your request, you would add the following to that file:
XfdesktopIconView.view { -XfdesktopIconView-ellipsize-icon-labels: 0; }
More info and settings in this post.
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Okay, thank you! that did it, but now I have a new problem where the horizontal real estate for the letter is only about 6 or 7 characters wide, so it's cutting words in half and splaying them over multiple lines. Do you know how I fix the amount of space it give the words in the names horizontally?
Edit:
I see this...
XfdesktopIconView.view {
-XfdesktopIconView-ellipsize-icon-labels: 1;
-XfdesktopIconView-tooltip-size: 32;
-XfdesktopIconView-cell-spacing: 4;
-XfdesktopIconView-cell-padding: 12;
-XfdesktopIconView-cell-text-width-proportion: 3.8; //this line sounds like it might be what I want, but I'm not sure...
background: transparent;
color: #fcfcfc;
border-radius: 3px; }
It looks like XfdesktopIconView.view is the thing that receives attribute '-XfdesktopIconView-cell-text-width-proportion', but if that's the only thing I want to change (assuming that even modifies the width of displayed file names on the desktop in the first place) do I need to include all of the attributes as well? I'm trying not to change more than I absolutely have to.
Edit Edit:
Everything looks good now, whatever default settings are in that snippit seem to have fixed everything! File/Folder names are human legible now! Thank you!
Last edited by VolumetricSteve (2023-10-30 18:40:37)
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