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aksilarch

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Registered: 2021-09-15

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[SOLVED] Changing xfce4 desktop icon style (text)

I'm trying to see how I can fiddle with my arch appearance (w/ xfce4 desktop environment), I can't find a .gtkrc2.0 file to edit, when I created it and applied some style lines, nothing happened.

What I'm trying to achieve is change this for example:

To this:

Without having to click on the icon to see the full name of the file. I just want to show the full name of the file at all times for all files.

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by aksilarch (2021-11-13 02:04:34)

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toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 513

Re: [SOLVED] Changing xfce4 desktop icon style (text)

Add the following to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:

XfdesktopIconView.view { -XfdesktopIconView-ellipsize-icon-labels: 0; }

and restart xfdesktop.

aksilarch

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Registered: 2021-09-15

Posts: 51

Re: [SOLVED] Changing xfce4 desktop icon style (text)

Add the following to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:

XfdesktopIconView.view { -XfdesktopIconView-ellipsize-icon-labels: 0; }

and restart xfdesktop.

The file didn't exist, so I created it and added the line to it, worked so thanks but I'm wondering if there is another location where those style settings are stored?

Marking this thread as solved.

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toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Changing xfce4 desktop icon style (text)

but I'm wondering if there is another location where those style settings are stored?

Unfortunately no. There is no gui setting for this. Its a hidden setting/property.