Ubuntu – How to increase icons and fonts in Nautilus sidebar (left pane)
nautilus
I imagine there is a setting for that but I cannot find it…
Best Answer
I think you can't do it with configurations but you can recompile nautilus with your own icon size (and it's not too complicated). I've compiled it 5 minutes ago and this was the first time I compiled a thing from ubuntu, but it worked, so you can do it, too.
Here is a nice How-To, i did it this way with nautilus 3.4.2 (only difference: the line to change is line 369, i searched for "pixbuf = nautilus_icon", the value to change the icon size is icon_size)
For example I changed it to 5, so the icons are very small
Those bookmarks are controlled by ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and commenting out a lines configures the appearance of the list
As an example, to remove the Videos bookmark from the list change the line:
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
to
#XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
Note:
After login the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs gets reverted to the original set by /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults. To prevent that make the file "read-only" either by right clicking and then properties > permissions or using the command
chmod -w ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
If you need to edit the file again do the opposite via Nautilus or use the command
chmod +w ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
If you want to apply this to all users in your system change the file vim /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf and set the option enabled to False. You need root permissions or this.
Best Answer
I think you can't do it with configurations but you can recompile nautilus with your own icon size (and it's not too complicated). I've compiled it 5 minutes ago and this was the first time I compiled a thing from ubuntu, but it worked, so you can do it, too.
Here is a nice How-To, i did it this way with nautilus 3.4.2 (only difference: the line to change is line 369, i searched for "pixbuf = nautilus_icon", the value to change the icon size is icon_size)
For example I changed it to 5, so the icons are very small
original:
with new size: