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The default size of files<\/i> and folders<\/i> in Nautilus file browser does not meet you need? It’s easy to change it in all current Ubuntu releases with Gnome.<\/p>\n
Though you can’t find how to configure it either in the System Settings<\/i> or Gnome Tweaks<\/i>, Ubuntu do provide an option to set an even larger<\/b> or smaller<\/b> icon size, and here’s the quick tip shows you how.<\/p>\n
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If you’re familiar with Linux command, you can run a single command to change the size.<\/p>\n
Since Nautilus displays files and folders in either icon view<\/b> or list view<\/b>, the command can be either:<\/p>\n
1.) Change icon size in icon view<\/b>:<\/p>\n Here value ‘large’<\/i> can be changed to: ‘small’<\/b>, ‘standard’<\/b>, ‘larger’<\/b>, or ‘largest’<\/b>.<\/p>\n 2.) Change icon size in list view<\/b>:<\/p>\n Here value ‘large’<\/i> can be changed to: ‘small’<\/b>, ‘standard’<\/b>, or ‘larger’<\/b>.<\/p>\n To reset the change<\/b>, either run command:<\/p>\n or run:<\/p>\n Firstly open Ubuntu Software, search for and install dconf editor<\/b> (or install Then launch the tool and navigate to “org\/gnome\/nautilus\/icon-view\/default-zoom-level” for the icon size in icon view:<\/p>\n For the list view mode, go to “org\/gnome\/nautilus\/list-view\/default-zoom-level”.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The default size of files and folders in Nautilus file browser does not meet you need? It’s easy to change it in all current Ubuntu releases with Gnome. Though you can’t find how to configure it either in the System Settings or Gnome Tweaks, Ubuntu do provide an option to set an even larger or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[428],"class_list":["post-33438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-nautilus"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view default-zoom-level 'large'<\/pre>\n
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.list-view default-zoom-level 'large'<\/pre>\n
gsettings reset org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view default-zoom-level<\/pre>\n
gsettings reset org.gnome.nautilus.list-view default-zoom-level<\/pre>\n
Change file folder icon size via graphical tool:<\/h3>\n
dconf-editor<\/code> via apt):<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dconf-editor-gnomesoftware-600x207.jpg\")
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