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David
Asked: 2016-09-22 10:58:09 +0800 CST

Arrange Icons In Better Grid

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I've recently come to find all my desktop programs and icons thrown askew about the place, and while rearranging, I noticed that the grid system Ubuntu uses by default is (in my eyes) miserable.

On Windows for example there is a large grid, and icons are far enough from each other to read, but not too close, and Ubuntu doesn't seem to - by default - have a vertical grid, just horizontal.

The following is what I currently am facing, either icons are way too close:

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Or they are way too far apart:

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(Note: no icons will fit in the middle of those 2)

What I want is a icon grid identical (or at least the closest you can get) to what Windows has (see the following picture):

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Is there a way I can do this, either via installation of program(s) or in Ubuntu Settings?

What I've tried so far:

  1. As suggested by @KazWolfe, I should check "Keep aligned," which did activate the grid system, but again not my cup of tea.

  2. As suggested by @WinEunuuchs2Unix I took off "Keep aligned" and dragged the icons free range, but again was not was I was looking for.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    What version of Ubuntu are you using?

    If it is 14.04 or 16.04, someone wrote a Gnome script called Happy Desktop that allows you to define the grid size that controls how your desktop icons are spaced. I found out about it in a similar question on this forum.

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