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Preferences

You can start the Desktop settings dialog by clicking on the Desktop button in the Settings Manager.

Background

Background Tab

Menus Tab

Appearance

The “Icon type” dropping list allows you to set the behavior of the desktop icons. There are three options: “None”, to disable desktop icons entirely; “Minimized” application icons, to show icons for minimized or hidden applications on the desktop; and “File/launcher” icons, to show the contents of your $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR directory on the desktop.

If desktop icons are enabled, you can control the size of the icon itself (in pixels) with the “Icon size” option, and the font size used to display the icon text (in points) with the “Use custom font size” option. If you do not check this last option, the system defaults will be used.

Default Icons

The checkboxes allow you to show or hide special icons on the desktop, when xfdesktop is set to draw icons. Double clicking those icons will open a Thunar window displaying the contents of a particular path.

Home stands for your home folder, that is to say, $HOME. Filesystem stands for the root of your file system, also known as /. Trash stands for your trash folder, and Removable devices represents floppy drives, USB drives and keys, external hard drives, optical discs, etc.

Icons

Icons Tab