Returning desktop icon size?

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#1

One last one, how do you return the size of the icons in the desktop?

#2

Hi lostgame,

I think this should work:

get word 3 of (do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder DesktopViewOptions | grep IconSize")

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#3

Hi Lostgame

Think this will also work.

tell application "Finder"
	open desktop
	set x to properties of icon view options of window 1
	set y to icon size of x
end tell
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#4

Hi pidge,

the difference between your script and Dominik’s is that your script reads the icon size of a Finder window,
on the other hand Dominik’s reads the icon size of the icons on desktop, which can be different from the icon view of the window “Desktop”

#5

Thank you, Dominik, that’s exactly what I needed.