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.
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.)
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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