# reduce space between icons in dolphin **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** dolphin\ **Created:** [July 21, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/reduce-space-between-icons-in-dolphin/37412 "2025-07-21T17:01:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![siamaksalimi](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@siamaksalimi](https://discuss.kde.org/u/siamaksalimi)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/reduce-space-between-icons-in-dolphin/37412/1 "2025-07-21T17:01:48Z")
Hello I’m moving from windows to Kubuntu. everything is great but extra space between icons in dolphin is annoying. ![Screenshot_20250721_201533](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/3X/3/6/360edc16712b6d7ebfbcf5eafa9aaa1bfbb71bc8.png) I’m talking about extra space that I marked in picture. ---
**Author:** ![Krovikan](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/krovikan/32/20043_2.png) [@Krovikan](https://discuss.kde.org/u/Krovikan)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/reduce-space-between-icons-in-dolphin/37412/2 "2025-07-21T17:17:26Z")
In the settings of Dolphin you can choose from here: ![imagen](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/3X/a/7/a71ac8241c824cdd1fbc5c28772469298cc3e1cf.png) You can also press `Ctrl` + `Mouse Wheel Up` to have more icons (and bigger) for row, or `Ctrl` + `Mouse Wheel Down` to have less icons (and lesser) for row. Regards ---
**Author:** ![siamaksalimi](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@siamaksalimi](https://discuss.kde.org/u/siamaksalimi)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/reduce-space-between-icons-in-dolphin/37412/3 "2025-07-21T17:50:38Z")
That setting changes the icon size. Increasing icon size reduces that space but I don’t want large icons. I just want more icons of same size (currently 64px) to be in the same row. ---
**Author:** ![anon11428787](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@anon11428787](https://discuss.kde.org/u/anon11428787)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/reduce-space-between-icons-in-dolphin/37412/4 "2025-07-21T17:53:11Z")
Under `View` and `Icons` like the above sceenshot by @Krovikan set `Label width` to small. Edit: The only downside to that is that folders / files with long names will take up multiple lines. You can set `Multiple lines` to `1`, but that then truncates the folder / file name. But at least it keeps it on a single line. Some screenshots. ![Screenshot_20250721_185655](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/3X/d/7/d74c3cb0da73cd9603e9e5ce76997cfa28ab38c3.png) ![Screenshot_20250721_185706](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/uploads/default/original/3X/8/0/803842fda8f522e328a9fb9f5e910700b01e6f86.png) ---
**Author:** ![siamaksalimi](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/58f4c7/32.png) [@siamaksalimi](https://discuss.kde.org/u/siamaksalimi)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/reduce-space-between-icons-in-dolphin/37412/5 "2025-07-21T18:08:44Z")
Yep. setting label width to small removed that extra space. thank you. ---
**Author:** ![skyfishgoo](https://discuss-cdn.kde.org/user_avatar/discuss.kde.org/skyfishgoo/32/2001_2.png) [@skyfishgoo](https://discuss.kde.org/u/skyfishgoo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.kde.org/t/reduce-space-between-icons-in-dolphin/37412/6 "2025-07-21T19:30:30Z")
i set icon view to just show just one short line of the file name since when i’m using icon view i’m not looking at file name, im looking at the thumbnail preview (which you can also turn on)… this will maximize you use of the screen for the icons. long file names on one line in the compact view help me when i’m looking at file names more than the previews. and details view is for when i need to look at other attributes that has the smallest icons so that the text lines are tighter together. each view has is utility.