# How to make desktop icons text size larger?

**URL:** <https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/how-to-make-desktop-icons-text-size-larger/3141>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [February 27, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/how-to-make-desktop-icons-text-size-larger/3141 "2020-02-27T10:28:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![NielAnd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@NielAnd](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/NielAnd)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/how-to-make-desktop-icons-text-size-larger/3141/1 "2020-02-27T10:28:54Z")

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Sorry, related issue. Having sorted links, the icon can be nicely re-sized for the hard of seeing.  
But I can’t see a way of enlarging the area of text description under it, - ie “Docume\_nts” is over two lines. I can make the font size larger, but this makes it worse, or smaller but not what wanted, need to make available space for text larger. Have poked around carefully in dconf editor (without breaking anything!), but without success. See attached image.  
Any ideas? Thank you!

![docueme_nts](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/uploads/ubuntubudgie/original/2X/7/7fe2fe93cd216ea22434fbe9bd4145ff5ffa699a.png)

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**Author:** ![Rinzwind](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/rinzwind/32/1152_2.png) [@Rinzwind](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/u/Rinzwind)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2020, 11:37am UTC](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/how-to-make-desktop-icons-text-size-larger/3141/2 "2020-02-27T11:37:42Z")

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Someone that wanted them smaller:

> [@Can't change Desktop Fonts](https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cant-change-desktop-fonts/2165/2):
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> The desktop on 19.04 is handled by nemo-desktop. To change the various settings of nemo-desktop you need to delve into dconf (gsettings) using dconf-editor

So reverse that to bigger. Not sure I saw a method outside dconf/manual editing.