correct spacing in Thunar columns

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Jerry3904
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correct spacing in Thunar columns

#1 Post by Jerry3904 »

In Thunar columns the content is often (always?) jammed up against the column border. That has always bothered me but I never thought to bring it up. Somebody did on the Xfce Forum, so ToZ went through the code--he is amazing--and found a way to add padding. I just added that to my running list of useful Xfce commands in the Wiki:

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/xfce/xfce-comm ... %20columns

The image below shows the result, and I hope to convince the Devs that we should make it the default look in the future sometime.
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Re: correct spacing in Thunar columns

#2 Post by Gaer Boy »

A big improvement. I will support that as default.

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Re: correct spacing in Thunar columns

#3 Post by bwich12 »

@Jerry3904: Though I have no problems with the content running against the border I'd like a visible separator between columns as per the image you uploaded (my Thunar shows no separators). I've looked through the obvious configuration bits but I've found no obvious option to change that. So what's the trick?

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Re: correct spacing in Thunar columns

#4 Post by Jerry3904 »

Did you read the linked Wiki article?
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Re: correct spacing in Thunar columns

#5 Post by bwich12 »

Yes... it says nothing about separators. Or does it?

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Re: correct spacing in Thunar columns

#6 Post by Jerry3904 »

It's the "horizontal separator = 20" part.
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Re: correct spacing in Thunar columns

#7 Post by bwich12 »

I am not talking about the added horizontal spacing, I am talking about the separator lines. Even if I add the "horizontal separator = 20" part I do not get any lines separating the columns as shown in your image.

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Re: correct spacing in Thunar columns

#8 Post by asqwerth »

I just go to View>>Configure Columns in the Thunar tool bar, and then untick the "Automatically expand columns" option so that I can set my own widths for each column.

Not exactly the same but I don't like Thunar automatically adjusting column widths to exactly the width of the longest line of text in that column.
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Re: correct spacing in Thunar columns

#9 Post by bwich12 »

I have unticked that box as well but I still do not get those lines separating the columns which I see in Jerry3904's image. But never mind, it's not that much of a nuisance.

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Re: correct spacing in Thunar columns

#10 Post by Jerry3904 »

Theme maybe? I am using the default light theme.
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