If you click on More Preview options… you can set which type of files will be shown as thumbnails.

What’s interesting here in the Features section at the bottom. Most of these settings, including the ones mentioned and those like icon sizes and sorting can also be simply changed in the Standard Menu with a right-click. You can also choose whether the icons should be aligned from left to right or right to left. By default, it is set to the column since most desktops align icons in vertical columns. Here, you can select whether the icons on the desktop, whichever folder you’ve chosen to show, appear horizontally (row) or vertically (column). It also lets you select any other folder that you may need constant access to. However, you can change it to show the contents of your home directory instead. If you have enabled Folder View your desktop shows the contents of the Desktop folder in your home directory. To change the contents of this menu you can click on the gear icon next to it. The right-click is set to Standard Menu by default, this is the menu you get when you right-click on the desktop. This can really make your workflow super smooth.įor each mouse action, you can set one of six functions: Switch Desktop, Paste, Switch Window, Standard Menu, Application Launcher, Switch Activity. With a simple flick on the scroll wheel, you can switch between different virtual desktops. No, it doesn’t support touch gestures, but it does support mouse gestures. Windows 10 may be gearing towards a touch-based interface but when it comes to gestures, Plasma takes the cake.

Align mac desktop icons