Hi,
I have problem, which seems to be the same as this older post:
http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-s...ysteriously-moving-volume-macintosh-icon.html
I have a PowerBook w/ a G4 1.67 Ghz, running system 10.3.9. I use it with several different monitors - an external at work, ext. at home, and the builtin screen. Desktop icons invariably get moved around as I switch monitors.
In normal usage, I have a fair amount of desktop icons, arranged logically (ie not sorted by name or anything). When I use the latop screen, these get thrown all over the place, on top of each other, etc. View -> Clean up doesn't fix the problem - it 'cleans' so that several icons are on top of each other. This makes it tough to use the desktop effectively.
I understand the laptop screen is a lot smaller than my ext. mon, and am willing to confine my icons to a region that fits on both. But it doesn't seem doing this gives the right behavior.
I tried a little experiment. Using a very wide external monitor (apple flat panel, I arranged the desktop thus: There's a block of icons (hard drive, some shortcuts) in the upper-right of the screen, and another folder placed at the 'lower left' of this block, but still well in the upper-right screen quadrant.
I sleep the machine, undock it, and reboot. The lower-left folder got moved, and placed on a non-grid coordinate; the upper-right block was fine. The entire time, under View -> Show View options I have 'snap to grid' checked. So this seems like a bad behavior, if not a bug - The idea of the grid is a screen-invariant concept, and the desktop doesn't respect it.
Anyway, I did 'clean up' while undocked, and the lower-left folder was put on a gridpoint. I made another folder and put it nearby. I then slept, re-docked, and rebooted. Now on the big external screen, the two lower-left folders were exiled much farther down and to the left. If I sleep and undock, on the laptop screen everything appears where it did when it was undocked before. Redock, same redocked layout.
It seems like the machine remembers two separate layouts - one for each monitor.
Either way, it is not keeping icons at the same gridpoint. When I snap to grid, I imagine some grid, and I care about which (x,y) coordinate describes an icon. And this is being changed as I switch screens.
Any thoughts? Maybe it's been fixed in 10.4.........
I have problem, which seems to be the same as this older post:
http://macosx.com/forums/mac-os-x-s...ysteriously-moving-volume-macintosh-icon.html
I have a PowerBook w/ a G4 1.67 Ghz, running system 10.3.9. I use it with several different monitors - an external at work, ext. at home, and the builtin screen. Desktop icons invariably get moved around as I switch monitors.
In normal usage, I have a fair amount of desktop icons, arranged logically (ie not sorted by name or anything). When I use the latop screen, these get thrown all over the place, on top of each other, etc. View -> Clean up doesn't fix the problem - it 'cleans' so that several icons are on top of each other. This makes it tough to use the desktop effectively.
I understand the laptop screen is a lot smaller than my ext. mon, and am willing to confine my icons to a region that fits on both. But it doesn't seem doing this gives the right behavior.
I tried a little experiment. Using a very wide external monitor (apple flat panel, I arranged the desktop thus: There's a block of icons (hard drive, some shortcuts) in the upper-right of the screen, and another folder placed at the 'lower left' of this block, but still well in the upper-right screen quadrant.
I sleep the machine, undock it, and reboot. The lower-left folder got moved, and placed on a non-grid coordinate; the upper-right block was fine. The entire time, under View -> Show View options I have 'snap to grid' checked. So this seems like a bad behavior, if not a bug - The idea of the grid is a screen-invariant concept, and the desktop doesn't respect it.
Anyway, I did 'clean up' while undocked, and the lower-left folder was put on a gridpoint. I made another folder and put it nearby. I then slept, re-docked, and rebooted. Now on the big external screen, the two lower-left folders were exiled much farther down and to the left. If I sleep and undock, on the laptop screen everything appears where it did when it was undocked before. Redock, same redocked layout.
It seems like the machine remembers two separate layouts - one for each monitor.
Either way, it is not keeping icons at the same gridpoint. When I snap to grid, I imagine some grid, and I care about which (x,y) coordinate describes an icon. And this is being changed as I switch screens.
Any thoughts? Maybe it's been fixed in 10.4.........
