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Icons fall off in dual-screen (stretched, NVIDIA TwinView) desktop when secondary monitor is larger height

Bug #408710 reported by Michael B. Trausch on 2009-08-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #360970: Multi-monitor - When using two displays with different vertical resolution, icons get lost on the shorter display. Edit Remove

This bug affects 8 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nautilus (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Nominated for Lucid by Eshwar Andhavarapu

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

I have two screens, one is 1440x900 (on the left), and the other is 1280x1024 (on the right, the top aligns with the 1440x900 screen). When Nautilus has many files on the desktop, some of their icons are placed in the "dead space" below the 900px threshold on the left screen, where the desktop icons live. In order to get them back, I must try to find them with the mouse and move them, or clean up my desktop so that I can auto-arrange to get them back.

This is in a fully-up-to-date Karmic.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-08-04:

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Invalid

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-08-04:

the issue is similar to bug #57784 for example

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Eshwar Andhavarapu (eshwar.andhavarapu) wrote on 2010-04-13:

I have a 1440x900 and 1920x1080 setup. same problem. desktop on smaller screen behaves like 1440x1080 so some of the icons disappear. Program windows seem ok though.

Eshwar Andhavarapu (eshwar.andhavarapu) on 2010-04-13

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Cas (calumlind) wrote on 2011-01-22:

Should this really be marked invalid? This is a bug that many multi-monitor users experience.

If anything it should be marked duplicate however there are no updates on #57784 bug report in which developers discuss that this issue is part of the same problem. Also not a single mention of this alternative issue, that I can see, on the referenced gnome bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47943 (from Sept 2001).