Change size of desktop icons all at the same time

Support & Help Requests
1

I want to change size of desktop icons all at the same time.

I thought there would be something in Appearance.

I looked in the dconf-editor as well.

2

Hey @fixit7 :slight_smile:

The command to change a single icon size is :

gio set /home/your_user/Desktop/your_file.xlsx metadata::icon-scale 1

scale can be changed for the one you wish.

To make it for all objects on your desktop you can create a simple bash script that will do it :

#!/bin/bash

folder=$(echo ~)/Desktop/*

for x in $folder; do
echo "$x"
gio set "$x" metadata::icon-scale 3
done
killall caja

You have to kill caja in order to reload the new config.

3

Thanks.

I tried a -1 but 0 is the lowest scale value. :slight_smile: