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blackdisk

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Registered: 2006-03-30

Posts: 28

Desktop icons spacing

I installed 4.4.0 and the icons can now be resized to anything without that disappearing bug anymore, but they are way too far apart, how can I reduce this space so they are closer together?

Nick

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Registered: 2005-02-17

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Re: Desktop icons spacing

IIRC there is no way to change the grid.

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neuschnee

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From: Canada

Registered: 2006-12-10

Posts: 1

Re: Desktop icons spacing

IIRC there is no way to change the grid.

nah, just edit xfdesktop/src/xfdesktop-icon-view.c

what i use:

#define DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE  7
#define DEFAULT_ICON_SIZE  16

#define ICON_SIZE         (icon_view->priv->icon_size)
#define TEXT_WIDTH        ((ICON_SIZE << 1) + (ICON_SIZE >> 1))  /* aka 2.5x */
#define CELL_PADDING      4
#define CELL_SIZE         (TEXT_WIDTH + CELL_PADDING * 2)
#define SPACING           4
#define SCREEN_MARGIN     4
#define CORNER_ROUNDNESS  2

su_xfce

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Registered: 2006-11-07

Posts: 4

Re: Desktop icons spacing

IIRC there is no way to change the grid.

nah, just edit xfdesktop/src/xfdesktop-icon-view.c

what i use:

#define DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE  7
#define DEFAULT_ICON_SIZE  16

#define ICON_SIZE         (icon_view->priv->icon_size)
#define TEXT_WIDTH        ((ICON_SIZE << 1) + (ICON_SIZE >> 1))  /* aka 2.5x */
#define CELL_PADDING      4
#define CELL_SIZE         (TEXT_WIDTH + CELL_PADDING * 2)
#define SPACING           4
#define SCREEN_MARGIN     4
#define CORNER_ROUNDNESS  2

Where can I find xfdesktop/src/xfdesktop-icon-view.c

TomE

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Registered: 2005-02-05

Posts: 132

Re: Desktop icons spacing

It's from the source code. You would have to patch the source and recompile.

acobar

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Registered: 2007-02-02

Posts: 15

Re: Desktop icons spacing

Why not make a small patch to get its values from a resource file?

For example, it could read from values from ~/.config/xfce4/desktop.xml (or from icons.screen#.rc) as:

        <option name="icons_size_default" type="int" value="48"/>
        <option name="icons_grid_auto" type="int" value="1"/>
        <option name="icons_x_grid" type="int" value="44"/>
        <option name="icons_y_grid" type="int" value="44"/>

(or something equivalent, for the matter).

Also would be cool to have on ~/.config/xfce4/icons.screen#.rc a list of icons on desktop where you could customize the size of some icons.

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