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    From nick.mason1@gmail.com@3:770/3 to All on Sun Nov 8 03:20:39 2020
    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.

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  • From A. Dumas@3:770/3 to nick....@gmail.com on Sun Nov 8 16:57:50 2020
    nick....@gmail.com <nick.mason1@gmail.com> wrote:
    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.

    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.)

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  • From nick.mason1@gmail.com@3:770/3 to A. Dumas on Sun Nov 8 10:25:58 2020
    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.

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