I just upgraded from 18 to 20.04lts, and the file names on the desktop icons are all truncated with ellipsis.

This is what i've tried:

$ gsettings list-recursively | grep ellipsis org.nemo.icon-view text-ellipsis-limit ['3'] org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view text-ellipsis-limit ['3'] org.nemo.desktop text-ellipsis-limit 2 $ gsettings get org.gnome.nautilus.desktop text-ellipsis-limit No such schema “org.gnome.nautilus.desktop”

So all limits seem to be at their default of 2 or 3 lines. The icon-view entries ask for a delimited string instead of a number. But all my desktop icons have their name truncated with ellipsis on the first line. Also tried changing the settings to 0 (and restarting with Alt+F2 r), but no change.

Is there a different setting somewhere else?

1 Answer

I just realized it was due to the icon height limit, set up on

/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/desktop-icons@csoriano/prefs.js

After raising the height there was enough room for the extra lines to show up.

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