Column and Row Spacing in Thunar - copy

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi

On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 at 20:36, Zetro Track <zetrotrack000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I hope you will be fine. Originally I posted my problem in forum.xfce.org, and, linuxquestions.org. There, a person asked me to contact xfce developers. So, I am writing to you and hope that your would not mind :)
>
> I am a xfce fan and use Thunar as my file manager. Originally the rows and columns spacing of Thunar is not according to my preference. So, in order to increase the spacing I used following contents in ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
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> style "thunar-spaced-out-icons"
> {
>   ThunarIconView::column-spacing = 70
>   ThunarIconView::row-spacing = 30
> }
> class "ThunarIconView" style "thunar-spaced-out-icons"
>
>
> and it worked fine.
>
> However, after last upgrade (to thunar version 1.8.1git-f5147445) the above settings stopped working. After some searching I have found that now I need to edit ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini . And also that its syntax is different from .gtkrc-2.0. I have tried some variations in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, for example:
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> gtk-ThunarIconView-column-spacing=70
> gtk-ThunarIconView-row-spacing=30
>
>
> and in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:
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> * {
> -ThunarIconView-row-spacing: 7;
> -ThunarIconView-column-spacing: 7;
> }
>
> and
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> gtk-ThunarIconView-row-spacing: 7;
> gtk-ThunarIconView-column-spacing: 7;
>
>
> But without any success.
>
> There are plenty of examples on internet regarding gtk-theme, icon-theme, icon-size etc. but I am unable to find my particular settings (regarding column/row spacing).
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> I think that I have to convert my .gtk-2.0 syntax to gtk-3.0, but I am not a programmer so I am struggling in this task.
> Kindly guide me towards correct syntax for my problem. So not only I can benefit from it, but also many others who are following my forum post.

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reach the Thunar developers.

Cheers,
Olivier