icon space on desktop
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Hey guys, using linux mint 18 with cinnamon DE. Also using conky, as i think that may be what is going on.
i only have 2 icons on the desktop, but i notice when clicking and dragging(making a selectable square) i only am able to use about a 1/2 of my desktop space. And if i move an icon to one of the "dead spaces" it puts it right back to where it was. Now i understand that where the conky portion is on the right side vertical, wouldn't be a usable space, but i also lose about 4 inches from the taskbar up towards the center as well. Is there something i would look for in the conkyrc file to see if i have some funky 'J' shape? jpg attached, i'm sure my description is not accurate. |
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Sorry it has been way too long sense I've used conky to be more precise. http://conky.sourceforge.net/documentation.html to get the information... width and type - desktop, windowed etc... |
i looked in the conkyrc and changed the width, it changed the width of conky, but did not change my issue. I also used top to find the process id and stopped conky from running, and its still doing the same thing. Could it be anything else?
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All my conkys I could drag-select their frames/canvas/perimeters...
pastebin the ransom note masquerading as your conkyrc file and toss us the link. or attach here. Many eyes makes all bugs shallow. |
so with mint 18 with cinnamon DE whenever you move a DT icon to somewhere else it goes back to where it was.
do you own an iPhone? have you noticed that it will not allow you to just put the icons anywhere on the screen? sounds to be being the same effect to were mint 18 with cinnamon DE will not allow this behavior. does it have an auto arrange icons option in settings? that'd be the next place I'd look. |
.conkyrc
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own_window yes |
did a reboot, and the issue seems to have been cleared. not sure exactly what caused it, but conky is running and i am able to select the entire desktop now. I can even put an icon over the conky graphic. Weird...
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yours
Code:
own_window yes Code:
background yes |
Solved? Great.
Glad it worked out. |
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