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:

Code:

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:

Code:

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

For example "#0000FF" is blue.

8)