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- From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Re: Icons in windows continually offset
- Message-ID: <930111110032@rgam.sc.ti.com>
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- Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
- References: <1993Jan9.170553.11738@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan9.213825.386@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:00:32 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan9.213825.386@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross) writes:
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- >> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
- >> : In article <1993Jan9.161425.23855@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..
- >>
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- My procedure is to open Settings, select the Sort tab, picking a Sort order,
- then selecting Always maintain Sort Order. Now, each time I open the folder,
- I can see all the icons, and when I add a new program to a folder, I can
- predict where it will show up, and I can see it in the folder.
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- Robert Gammon
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