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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Icons in windows continually offset
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.011610.27862@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1993Jan9.170553.11738@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan9.213825.386@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:16:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan9.213825.386@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross) writes:
- >: >Every time I open a folder, the contents are scrolled such that I need
- >: >to reposition them to see them. What *should* happen is that a window
- >: >keeps the icon positions it had when you closed it (like the Mac).
- >: >Would someone please tell me how to fix this annoying problem?
- >: Click inside the folder with mouse button two. Select Arrange.
- >: Assuming you do a proper Shutdown (mouse button two on the desktop
- >: background to bring up that menu), your icon positions should be saved.
- >I tried this, and it doesn't work for me. Selecting inside the folder
- >with button 2 creates the dashed circle within the window boundaries,
- >and pops up the menu. I select Arrange, and the icons are arranged. I then
- >close the folder. If I open it again, the icons are unarranged as before.
- >The window *does*, however, retain the screen position and size it had
- >before being closed. Also, I do shutdown properly, but this has no effect
- >on the icon arrangement problem..
-
- Try an immediate Refresh after the Arrange, repeat the Arrange, then
- another Refresh.
-
- Sounds like something got "stuck."
-
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