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In Thunar columns the content is often (always?) jammed up against the column border. That has always bothered me but I never thought to bring it up. Somebody did on the Xfce Forum, so ToZ went through the code--he is amazing--and found a way to add padding. I just added that to my running list of useful Xfce commands in the Wiki:

https://mxlinux.org/wiki/xfce/xfce-comm ... %20columns

The image below shows the result, and I hope to convince the Devs that we should make it the default look in the future sometime.

A big improvement. I will support that as default.

@Jerry3904: Though I have no problems with the content running against the border I'd like a visible separator between columns as per the image you uploaded (my Thunar shows no separators). I've looked through the obvious configuration bits but I've found no obvious option to change that. So what's the trick?

Did you read the linked Wiki article?

Yes... it says nothing about separators. Or does it?

It's the "horizontal separator = 20" part.

I am not talking about the added horizontal spacing, I am talking about the separator lines. Even if I add the "horizontal separator = 20" part I do not get any lines separating the columns as shown in your image.

I just go to View>>Configure Columns in the Thunar tool bar, and then untick the "Automatically expand columns" option so that I can set my own widths for each column.

Not exactly the same but I don't like Thunar automatically adjusting column widths to exactly the width of the longest line of text in that column.

I have unticked that box as well but I still do not get those lines separating the columns which I see in Jerry3904's image. But never mind, it's not that much of a nuisance.

Theme maybe? I am using the default light theme.

Hm... that's interesting. I also use the default light theme but nevertheless I went to MX Default Look and reselected this... and now it works. Go figure.

EDIT: in Appearance I also changed themes from the Greybird theme to one of the Xfce themes... and that theme makes the lines disappear. Simple as that. I'll readjust the theme* so that I have the colours as I like them and also those pesky lines.

* "listviewstyle = 0 # 0 = nothing, 1 = dotted 2 = solid" is what has to be changed.

Great! That is an annoyance.
It is something I always correct on a new install.
I usually turn off Type and hover over the line
for the popup tag when I want to confirm Type.