truncated icon text port-5 xfce

[donald]

on desktop all my (e.g.) drive icons text is truncated - I don't like it to be this way.
A .gtkrc-2.0 file does not work anymore - it is now gtk-3 and changes have to be made
via a css file.
If you, like me, don't want truncated icon text give this a try in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
Create /gtk-3.0/gtk.css if it doesn't exist.

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* {
   -XfdesktopIconView-ellipsize-icon-labels: 0;
}

logout/in is required to see the effect.

It solved it for me but it is not perfect.It doesn't look nice if the file names are way too long.

[Rapha_]

Hi !

It solved it for me but it is not perfect.It doesn't look nice if the file names are way too long.

Yes, but you have given the whole solution here :
Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports (Post by donald #78912)

However, here is my current gtk.css and screenshot

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/* icon text not truncated */
XfdesktopIconView.view {
   -XfdesktopIconView-ellipsize-icon-labels: 0;
   -XfdesktopIconView-cell-spacing:0;
   -XfdesktopIconView-cell-padding:0;
   -XfdesktopIconView-cell-text-width-proportion: 2.5;
}

This controls the width of the icon text field:
-XfdesktopIconView-cell-text-width-proportion: 2.5;
Less than 2.5 the text field returns to 1 line

You can restart the desktop with:

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xfdesktop -Q && sleep 1 && xfdesktop &

if you want to experiment with various values.

[Rapha_]

For those who use Xfce 4.12 for Porteus 5 : Xfce 4.12 for Porteus 5 final release
Or Porteus 4

The version is GTK 2 , as you can see with :

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xfdesktop -V

The hiden file to edit is .gtkrc-2.0 in guest folder is different :

/home/guest/.gtkrc-2.0

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style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {



XfdesktopIconView::cell-spacing = 0
XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 0

XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 2.5
XfdesktopIconView::ellipsize-icon-labels = 0

}

widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"

More informations on xfdesktop - Advanced Options (GTK 2) :
https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/advanced

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[donald]

Hi Rapha

Yes, but you have given the whole solution here :
Porteus 5.0 RC2 bug reports (Post by donald #78912)

...yep I did...
I'm 65 and apparently my memory is slipping a bit.

EDIT
...well, my body is 65, but I'm not sure my mindset is.

[Rava]

System:

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guest@porteus:~$ cat /etc/porteus/00*
001-core.xzm:20220723
002-xorg.xzm:20220723
002-xtra.xzm:20220630
003-xfce.xzm:20220925

aka XFCE 4.16.

Just created

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guest@porteus:~$ cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
* {
   -XfdesktopIconView-ellipsize-icon-labels: 0;
}

and saved in in my 992-rootcopy settings module.
At next bootup I will see if that does the trick.