Decrease distance between icons

kiraishere · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2025 5:59 am **Posts:** 2

How can I further decrease the horizontal distance between the icons...with the settings this is the minimum, but is there a way to decrease it further?

Thank
Kira

winstep · **Joined:** Thu Feb 26, 2004 8:30 pm **Posts:** 12280

Thanks for the screenshot, without it it would probably not have been possible to figure out what is REALLY going on, at least not in a timely manner.

Your problem is not the icon spacing, but the fact that you are using a TILED theme for the dock (which is not visible in the actual dock at the bottom of the screenshot likely because the dock background is set to be 100% transparent). The tiles themselves have non-stretchable edges that are added to the icon spacing, so that the icons do not overlap the tile edges (hope that makes sense) - this is what is preventing the icons from being tighter together.

In short, the solution to your problem: apply a theme to the dock that is NOT based on tiles.

kiraishere · **Joined:** Fri Jun 06, 2025 5:59 am **Posts:** 2

winstep wrote:

Thanks for the screenshot, without it it would probably not have been possible to figure out what is REALLY going on, at least not in a timely manner.

Your problem is not the icon spacing, but the fact that you are using a TILED theme for the dock (which is not visible in the actual dock at the bottom of the screenshot likely because the dock background is set to be 100% transparent). The tiles themselves have non-stretchable edges that are added to the icon spacing, so that the icons do not overlap the tile edges (hope that makes sense) - this is what is preventing the icons from being tighter together.

In short, the solution to your problem: apply a theme to the dock that is NOT based on tiles.

Yessss you are right and thank for your help
I solved using Windows10nx

Good weekend
Kira

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