One of the things that comes standard in the Mac system and that cannot be modified icon crowd in the System Preferences menus is the number of icons displayed on each of the Launchpad screens.
If you stop to count the rows and columns of icons that exist in the Launchpad you will notice that a total of 35 different icons can be located on each of the screens, that is, five rows and seven columns.
If you want to increase or decrease the maximum number of icons that can fit on a Launchpad screen, we will have to enter the Terminal of the system and modify these options with commands. With this we want to tell you that it is not something that can be changed by pressing a simple icon in a system menu but by this we do not mean that it is not possible.
Those of Cupertino implement a certain number of options so that the user can adjust fourth things in the system but there are many that are not implemented and therefore you have to know the commands to do it. For this we have our friends, the macOS developers, who usually filter the commands that we have to use to execute certain things.
The commands we must use to change the rows and columns of icons that may appear on a Launchpad screen are the following:
NOTE: Before exposing the commands that you have to use, we have to warn you that when we execute two two commands that change the number of rows and columns, it is necessary to restart it so that any order or hierarchy that you already have in the Launchpad will be lost.
- FOR modify the number of rows we have to make use of the following command where the "10" means the number of rows that we will have when the process ends.
defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-rows -int 10
- Now play modify the number of columns and as before, the "10" indicates the number of columns that we are going to have.
defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-columns -int 10
- To finish we must restart the Lauchpad for which we use:
defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool TRUE; killall Dock
If you want the changes made to stop taking effect, you must use the following commands, in order:
defaults delete com.apple.dock springboard-rowsdefaults delete com.apple.dock springboard-columnsdefaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool TRUE; killall Dock
And if we want to eliminate icons that have remained there, despite having uninstalled the application or program? It happens to me with folders without drawing or anything that have been left when uninstalling windows and programs that I had with it!