Column and Row Spacing in Thunar - copy

[Alex]

Hi,

I dont have a fix for you, however maybe I can lead you on the right track:

If you press CTRL+Shift+D while thunar is focused, the GtKInspector
should open, if it is installed on your system.

There you can select the ThunarIconView and its sub-widget ExoIconView.

ExoIconView has the properties "row-spacing" and  "column-spacing" ..
you can modify their value directly in the  GtKInspector.

Theoretically it should be possible to provide some peace of CSS within
the GtKInspector in order to set them ... but I am not very skilled at
CSS and failed at that part so far.

Maybe you have more luck than me (or maybe somebody with CSS skills
could take a quick look )

Cheers,
Alexander Schwinn

P.S: Regarding the formatting: Here the official gtk3 CSS howto:
 
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/chap-css-overview.html


On 07/09/2018 04:53 PM, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> gtk-ThunarIconView-column-spacing=70
>> gtk-ThunarIconView-row-spacing=30
>>
>>
>> and in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css:
>>
>>
>> * {
>> -ThunarIconView-row-spacing: 7;
>> -ThunarIconView-column-spacing: 7;
>> }
>>
>> and
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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.
> You need to send your email to the xfce4-devel mailing list (CC'ed but
> you'll need to subscribe to post there) where you have more chance to
> reach the Thunar developers.
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier
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