Turn off desktop grid snap

[JmaCWQ]

G'day Ken,

I'm not sure the grid can be turned off with Xfce but it can be adjusted somewhat by editing a config file which might help.
I'm using LL-2.8 at the moment but I think it'll be the same for 3.0 & 3.2.

The file to edit is a hidden file in the home folder named .gtkrc-2.0.
Find it, right click on it & create a backup copy so you have an original to use if something goes wrong.
Then open the original with a text editor, replace anything in there with the following:

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gtk-menu-popdown-delay = 0
gtk-menu-bar-popup-delay = 0
gtk-enable-animations = 0
gtk-timeout-expand = 0

style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
    XfdesktopIconView::label-alpha = 0
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-label-alpha = 170
    XfdesktopIconView::ellipsize-icon-labels = 1

    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-x-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-y-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView::shadow-color = "#000000"
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-x-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-y-offset = 0
    XfdesktopIconView::selected-shadow-color = "#ffffff"

    XfdesktopIconView::cell-spacing = 1
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-padding = 1
    XfdesktopIconView::cell-text-width-proportion = 2.0

    base[NORMAL] = "#004e00"
    base[SELECTED] = "#004e00"
    base[ACTIVE] = "#004e00"

    fg[NORMAL] = "#ffffff"
    fg[SELECTED] = "#ffffff"
    fg[ACTIVE] = "#ffffff"
}
widget_class "*XfdesktopIconView*" style "xfdesktop-icon-view"
Save & close the file, logout & back in again & you should be able to align the icons pretty much to your liking.
The colour of the highlighted (selected) icons with this file is a green colour, to change that edit the colour codes between the quotes in the lines:

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base[NORMAL] = "#004e00"
base[SELECTED] = "#004e00"
base[ACTIVE] = "#004e00"
For example "#0000FF" is blue.

 

[kjacobs]

Hello folks,

Sooooo....I have not found a solution to this anywhere. I need to be able to completely turn off the icon grid snap on the desktop. I am building some public library computers and the icons need to be placed in specific locations against a custom wallpaper on the desktop.  The icons are arranged under header on the wallpaper. This allows new user at the library to easily find the icons they need to use. The grid snap is not allowing me to position the icons anywhere close to where they need to go. Is there a way to remove the grid snap completely.....as I have not found one yet.

Thanks in advance.....

Ken