Change size of desktop icons all at the same time

[fixit7]

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.

[olek]

Hey @fixit7

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.

[fixit7]

Thanks.

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