Desktop icons spacing

[Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:29:35 -0400
"Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI" <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:

> > > After upgrading form Debian Wheezy to Devuan Jessie, I end up with
> > > icons widely spread out on my desktop; is there a way to change the
> > > desktop icons spacing ?    

> > This can be done in the file $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0
> > I currently use these settings to achieve narrow spacing:   

> Got exactly what I wanted with :
> XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 10
> XfdesktopIconView::cell-spacing = 100

Although I should mention I ended up with a black stripe, about 1cm wide, along the top and left sides of the screens.

This disappeared after a reboot.
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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