Re: GNOME Panel hides desktop icons...

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"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