Re: GNOME Panel hides desktop icons...

["Bruce W. Bigby" <bbigby rochester rr com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> "Bruce W. Bigby" <bbigby@rochester.rr.com> writes:
> > I run my display at 1152 x 864. When GNOME displays all of my desktop
> > icons, the GNOME panel covers the icons at the bottom of the screen.
> > However, I noticed that, if I change my resolution to 1280 x 1024, GNOME
> > does not paint the icons so that the panel can cover them. GNOME doesn't
> > display any desktop icons in positions where the panel might obscure
> > them. What's going on? I don't run at the higher 1280 x 1024, because my
> > eyes need the 85 Hz refresh rate of 1152 x 864. 1280 x 1024 @ 75 Hz is
> > not comfortably readable for me. After a while, my eyes just hurt. Not
> > only is everything smaller but the refresh rate is lower.
> 
> Wild guess: maybe GNOME saved the position of your icons at 1280x1024,
> try doing an "auto arrange" from the desktop menu while using the
> lower resolution.
> 
> Havoc
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Nope, rearranging puts some of the icons at the bottom where the panel
can hide them. It only seems to do this when I explicitly arrange the
icons via the menu. Hmmm....
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Bruce W. Bigby
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