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How to Re-size Desktop Icons

sunshine999

Tue Jul 07, 2020 9:45:24 am

You can often re-size desktop icons by using the Zoom feature in the File Explorer:
Screenshot from 2020-07-07 10-22-58.png
Zoom function on file explorer


If this doesn't work you can use one of the following commands in terminal (depending on what size icons you want).

$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view default-zoom-level small
$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view default-zoom-level standard
$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view default-zoom-level large

The original source I got this info from is here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1080133/resize-desktop-icons-ubuntu-18-04

Aravisian

Fri Jul 24, 2020 9:42:04 am

sunshine999 wrote:You can often re-size desktop icons by using the Zoom feature in the File Explorer:
Screenshot from 2020-07-07 10-22-58.png


If this doesn't work you can use one of the following commands in terminal (depending on what size icons you want).

$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view default-zoom-level small
$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view default-zoom-level standard
$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view default-zoom-level large

The original source I got this info from is here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1080133/resize-desktop-icons-ubuntu-18-04

Great reference point.
It helps to have it handy since I never remember full gsettings and have to either look them up or keep a text file with commonly asked for ones on it.

Swarfendor437

Fri Jul 24, 2020 12:51:15 pm

He's kindly made a how-to of my solution:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15813&hilit=+icons#p72109 ;) :D