Positioning icons on Gnome desktop

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On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 06:29, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> To use my Thinkpad with an XVGA projector yesterday, I had to make some
> fairly radical changes to my X configuration. When I couldn't get the
> ATI r128.o driver to display any resolutions below 1600x1200, I
> substituted the VESA driver in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. That allowed me to
> bring up X in 1024x768 mode.
> 
> Ever since I undid that bit of tinkering and returned to 1600x1200 mode,
> I've been unable to position any desktop icons on the far right hand
> side of the desktop. Indeed, there appears to be a 1024x768 virtual
> window on my desktop (anchored in the upper left corner) beyond which I
> cannot drag and drop any launcher icon. When I first tried to drag an
> icon to the right hand edge of the desktop and release it, I was
> startled to see it float right back to its starting position.
> 
> Can anyone tell me in what file desktop icon positioning information is
> stored? And what causes that virtual barrier.
> 
> --Doc Savage
>   Fairview Heights, IL
> 
> 

Hi !
I'm getting into this problem very often...
The only thing I found is to delete all gnome and nautilus personnal
options.
I' sure there's  way, but once, I spent an hour trying to resolve his
really stuping bug without finding anyway.





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