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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Desktop icon placement weirdness ...
From:       Michael Brade <Michael.Brade () informatik ! uni-muenchen ! de>
Date:       2001-08-10 8:06:03
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On Wednesday 08 August 2001 18:35, Wilco Greven wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 06:24:06PM +0200, Thomas Leitner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is with KDE 2.2 release version: I was fighting now for more than an
> > hour to get my desktop icons placed like I want them. Apparently there's
> > a certain situation which triggers a completely weird behaviour of the
> > desktop icon placement. When the desktop is in this mode, you cannot move
> > icons anymore. They just jump back to their original auto-placed
> > position. The only way to get rid of it is to log-out and log-in again.
> >
> > I think this mode can be triggered by placing many icons too close to
> > each other or placing one or more icons at the upper or right border of
> > the desktop so that parts of the icon are located outside of the desktop.
> >
> > In any case: Can anyone confirm this? Any fix?
>
> See Michael's post earlier this day.
No, this is certainly not the reason. I turned on my Computer and started KDE 
the other day and had this problem, I didn't change *anything* in my libs 
compared to the day before and I have only qt-copy installed. Restarting KDE 
fixed it, I didn't see the problem again.

Ciao,
  Michael

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