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the_file

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Registered: 2013-02-17

Posts: 36

The grid on the desktop.

I find it so annoying, preventing me placing icons in any other manner than an over sized boxed area, it renders xfces' desktop useless for me; due to it I must use nautilus to manage desktop icons. Just seems ridicules, and a broken feature.

Jristz

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From: Sud-America

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 111

Re: The grid on the desktop.

So look one of the debels branch, I read in the mailist commit that want fix that

maybe for Xfce-4.12 can be more flexibles

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eric_the_idiot

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Registered: 2011-12-23

Posts: 58

Re: The grid on the desktop.

There are some changes in master so that the icon label is multi-line and the icon iself can use the full cell width, which may help with the wasted area in the cells.
Currently, if you don't like how tall the cells are you can change the icon size in xfdesktop-settings. To change the width of the icons you'll need to modify the XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion in the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file as documented here: http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/tree/README#n32

the_file

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Registered: 2013-02-17

Posts: 36

Re: The grid on the desktop.

There are some changes in master so that the icon label is multi-line and the icon iself can use the full cell width, which may help with the wasted area in the cells.
Currently, if you don't like how tall the cells are you can change the icon size in xfdesktop-settings. To change the width of the icons you'll need to modify the XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion in the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file as documented here: http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/tree/README#n32

I gave it a shot I changed a lot of settings in the gtk rc file and restarted xfdestkop many times,, it simply doesn't work like a normal desktop, I guess Im stuck with nautilus until xfdesktop does icon placement like all the other desktops do.

Last edited by the_file (2013-09-06 23:52:24)

demosthenese

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From: Liverpool, UK

Registered: 2009-05-04

Posts: 71

Re: The grid on the desktop.

You could give screenlets a try and use the folderview screenlet to organize your desktop.

folderview: http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=102890

andrzejr

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Registered: 2012-04-06

Posts: 48

Re: The grid on the desktop.

I gave it a shot I changed a lot of settings in the gtk rc file and restarted xfdestkop many times,, it simply doesn't work like a normal desktop, I guess Im stuck with nautilus until xfdesktop does icon placement like all the other desktops do.

There is no bug so there is no solution. If you don't like this particular design choice you are free to convince the developer to add an option (I'm afraid you are not very convincing, if at all), do it yourself, or use another desktop manager.

the_file

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Registered: 2013-02-17

Posts: 36

Re: The grid on the desktop.

So look one of the debels branch, I read in the mailist commit that want fix that

maybe for Xfce-4.12 can be more flexibles

There's a bug about this issue, but it has not been updated for a while.

Would you show me what you found which describes intents to resolve this issue?

Last edited by the_file (2013-09-24 01:40:45)