File Manager

[nick....@gmail.com]

Had the Pi400 for a few days now and am loving it!

One issue is that when File manager opens the window is far too small to be useful and the first job is to make it larger.

Is there any way to change the file manager so that it opens up larger than the default? I've had a quick look through the settings and can't see any obvious way.

Thank you.

[A. Dumas]

I know that for LX Terminal this can be defined in the shortcut file by
specifying the number of columns and rows as parameters to the Exec
setting. That file is either in
/usr/share/raspi-ui-overrides/applications/lxterminal.desktop or
/usr/share/applications/lxterminal.desktop. Change this line:
Exec=lxterminal --geometry=120x60. But that's not what you asked ;)

Apparently for the file manager in LXDE the following works, but I haven't
tried it on a Pi:

Edit this file if it exists:
~/.config/pcmanfm/LXDE-pi/desktop-items-0.conf (it might be named slightly
differently? No idea about the conventions)

Or else edit or create this file:
~/.config/pcmanfm/LXDE/pcmanfm.conf (or maybe use that exact oath from
above?)

Edit or add these lines:
win_width=640
win_height=800
(They should under the [ui] category, or [*] probably works too)

For reference, the full configuration files are at:
/etc/xdg/pcmanfm/LXDE/pcmanfm.conf
/etc/xdg/pcmanfm/LXDE-pi/pcmanfm.conf
/etc/xdg/pcmanfm/default/pcmanfm.conf

(Maybe if the file in ~/.config doesn't work, try editing one of these,
with sudo.)

[nick....@gmail.com]

On Sunday, 8 November 2020 at 16:57:51 UTC, A. Dumas wrote:


> Edit this file if it exists:
> ~/.config/pcmanfm/LXDE-pi/desktop-items-0.conf (it might be named slightly
> differently? No idea about the conventions)
>
>

> Edit or add these lines:
> win_width=640
> win_height=800

This worked perfectly, thank you very much.

The values were:
win_width=943
win_height=653

Which seemed very odd and random values. I changedbasically doubled them to:
win_width=2000
win_height=1300

That makes everything much better.