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Its name starts with and it’s usually at ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions.

If you want to customize even more and choose your own icon dimensions, go to the extension’s directory.

#DESKTOP ICON RESIZE HOW TO#

One more way how to change the size of desktop icons is directly from Nautilus: change the way of displayed icons to icon view NOT detailed view While zooming the icon view the icons are changed on the desktop at the same time. Now you can change the icon size to either tiny, small, standard or large. Just go to 'dconf-editor', then org -> gnome -> nautilus -> icon-view, and set the default-zoom-level small. If you’re using Desktop Icons NG (DING), right-click on your desktop and choose "Settings" (or something similar…).

~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions if it’s been exclusively installed by the user for his own personal use, generally through this website.

/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions if it’s been installed by the system (or apt…),.

Keep in mind that the extension’s directory name begins with and is usually either at : If you want to customize even more and choose your own dimensions for those three options, see this answer for Ubuntu 20.04. You can now select the icon size between small, standard and large. If you see on the extensions window that Desktop Icons is enabled, click on its settings button. This will open a new window where you can see informations about your gnome extensions and manage them. If you can’t find both of them, make sure the package gnome-shell-extension-prefs is installed. To know which is installed and active on your computer for Ubuntu 20.04 and more, just launch "Extensions" from Activities or open a terminal and type gnome-extensions-app. I assume you’re using it or maybe another one called "DING". The extension "Desktop Icons" seems to be installed by default in some cases for that purpose. This solution works only for Ubuntu 20.04 with the GNOME Desktop installed, not unity.įor Ubuntu 20.04, you need to look for a GNOME Shell extension that manage the desktop icons.

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You could find the full bash script there: dfpie.tgz Of course, SVG width and SVG height ( 82px) is computed by my script, and stay smaller than 150. I use a little bash to render icons for my desktop like: Or $ gsettings set -view thumbnail-size 150ĭepending on wich desktop environment you're using. view thumbnail-size 64Īnd you can alter this by running: $ gsettings set -view thumbnail-size 150 You could show this by running command: $ gsettings list-recursively | grep thumbnail-size Using gnome-shell, this value is called: -view thumbnail-size, but under mate, this value is called -view thumbnail-size. For desktop icons, there is a default size, which could be used as maximum size if you define smaller images than this value.