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Screen size changes from gdm to login mess up the icon position
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RESOLVED: DUPLICATE
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Xfdesktop
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Description sledgehammer_999 2011-05-26 22:08:21 CEST
I am using xfce 4.8 on Debian unstable.

I use GDM as a login manager. My screen resolution in xfce is 1440x900(monitor's native). For some odd reason though, GDM chooses to run in 1024x768 mode. So when I first login into xfce and before the xfce's screen resolution takes effect, xfdesktop moves all my icons to new positions(it crams them all in the right half of the screen). When the screen resolution takes effect xfdesktop resizes to the new resolution but it doesn't restore my icons' positions.

This effectively renders the desktop icons unusable. I don't have high hopes for a fix, since xfdesktop is being deprecated...
Comment 1 Fab 2011-11-14 00:00:36 CET
(In reply to comment #0)
> I don't have high hopes for a fix, since xfdesktop is being deprecated...

Anyway, sounds like duplicate of bug #6149, another side effect of the xfdesktop's grid resize.

Bug #7670

Reported by:
sledgehammer_999
Reported on: 2011-05-26
Last modified on: 2012-03-09

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Assignee:
Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail)
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