I have a dual monitor setup and use the second as primary monitor. XFDesktop creates a grid of possible icon locations spanned over the combined resolution instead of per monitor. I'd like to place some icons/files on the second monitor but it has a offset of half an icon... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
You're using xinerama, aren't you? Unfortunately it's somewhat hard to support this, but I'll see if I have time before 4.4.
Have a very similar problem here with NVidia TwinView. My left monitor has a lower physical resolution as the right one and the icons get placed _above_ the real monitor-space. But this seems to be a icon-only problem, because the toolbars and the background are placed correcrtly according to the lower resolution.
I have an additional feature request, also related to the icon grid: I have a panel at the top of each screen. When logging into xfce, xfdesktop draws the icons on the desktop. If an offset is needed because of a panel, the icons are moved to the correct location. If xfdesktop could 'remember' the last used offset and calculate a new one upon launch (just to be sure), the icons will be drawn correcly the first time for 99,9%... -H-
(In reply to comment #3) > I have an additional feature request, also related to the icon grid: Please don't clutter existing bugs with other requests. Open a new bug. > I have a panel at the top of each screen. > > When logging into xfce, xfdesktop draws the icons on the desktop. If an offset > is needed because of a panel, the icons are moved to the correct location. > > If xfdesktop could 'remember' the last used offset and calculate a new one upon > launch (just to be sure), the icons will be drawn correcly the first time for > 99,9%... Regardless, this is more work than it's worth. Feel free to file another bug to request it, but it's not getting done unless someone else does it.
Any chance this is addressed any time soon? I have a 19" CRT @ 1280x1024 and a 15" TFT @ 1024x768. I recently switched my primary and secondary monitors and now a couple of icons (thrasbin, filesystem) are placed off-screen... XFDesktop creates a single resolution to calculate the icon placement. Since I use 2 different resolutions, there is an off-screen space on my lesser resolution in which XFDesktop allows me to put icons... I'm still looking for them ;-)
Created attachment 775 Screenshot of off-screen icons I managed to find the 'missing' icons with a screenshot! Attached is the screenshot which also displays my problem very well...
Doubtful it's going to be fixed at all... Thunar will eventually have its own icon view, though.
Ok, I thought of a relatively easy way of doing this: instead of calculating different grids for different-sized monitors, just do a second pass and "blacklist" grid cells that aren't 100% bounded by a monitor's visible area. Should be working OK in SVN, though I'm unable to test this very well since I only have one monitor and I'm not sure how reliable my 2-different-sized-monitor emulation is.