Excessively Wide (Long) Icon Names on Cinnamon Desktop

[jgh]

On my desktop, I have created a new icon, with a name 'Link to Downloads', which appears all on one line: and is too long for icon grid arrangement (I have 'keep aligned' option for desktop ticked), so overlaps part of the name of the adjacent icon. Another icon I have with a long name 'Link to My Documents' is split (after 'My') into two lines,

What can I change so that the name 'Link to Downloads' (and any similar) are split over two lines to fit the standard grid? Is there a 'max length' setting somewhere (and if so where)?

My system: Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon 32-bit, Cinnamon version 2.4.5, Kernel 3.13.0-24-generic

[Cosmo.]

Try this:
Open the nemo settings. On the first page activate the setting to give all columns the same width.

[roblm]

jgh,

Right click on the icon and select "Rename". Place the cursor after the word "to" and keep pressing the spacebar until the word "Downloads" drops to the second line.

[jgh]

Thanks - changing the nemo settings (once I'd found them, and realised I also had to use compact layout) did the trick