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quefacilescriticar

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Registered: 2025-09-04

Posts: 8

set desktop icon font to 0

Hi everyone, I’d like to know how to set the desktop icon text size to 0; currently, the lowest setting possible is 2. I’ve tried modifying files, but it always reverts to the minimum allowed in Xfce, which is 2. In older versions of Xfce, it was possible to set it to 0. There may be valid reasons for this change, but I’d really like to have my icons without text. Apart from that, I’m delighted with this environment and wouldn’t trade it for anything. Thanks.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,660

Re: set desktop icon font to 0

That settings is hard-coded to a minimum of 2 now. What version of xfdesktop are you running?

As a workaround, you can use css to make the label invisible. Put into ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css the following:

XfdesktopIconView.view .label {color: transparent; text-shadow: none; background: none;}

...and restart xfdesktop or log out and back in again.

You can further adjust the spacing between the icons if you so desire, with something like:

XfdesktopIconView.view {
    -XfdesktopIconView-cell-spacing: 8;
    -XfdesktopIconView-cell-padding: 8;
    -XfdesktopIconView-cell-text-width-proportion: 1;
}

...and adjust the values to suit.

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quefacilescriticar

Member

Registered: 2025-09-04

Posts: 8

Re: set desktop icon font to 0

Many thanks, administrator; what you sent me works perfectly. I'll try out the "adjust the spacing between the icons" tip another day, but that's very useful too. Thanks for everything.