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gambolputty

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Tuesday, February 10th 2004, 12:38am

Scrolling desktop in KDE

Sometimes when using the rubberband to select icons and moving the mouse downwards I can get the whole desktop to move upwards.
Is this some feature that I don't understand or is it a bug? The behaviour has been there since 3.1 at least (I am using KDE 3.2).

Nicolas Goutte

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Friday, February 13th 2004, 12:58pm

Is it the Alt+Left Mouse Drag with which you can move any window?

gambolputty

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Friday, February 13th 2004, 3:37pm

It's the background that's moveable, here's a screenshot with the icons on the top barely visible:
http://w1.586.telia.com/~u58615169/screen.png
It seems to happen when icons gets placed too far down on the screen.
Is there a way to turn of this behaviour, because I think it's slightly annoying.

cmbofh

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Friday, February 13th 2004, 5:11pm

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Original von gambolputty

It's the background that's moveable, here's a screenshot with the icons on the top barely visible:
http://w1.586.telia.com/~u58615169/screen.png
It seems to happen when icons gets placed too far down on the screen.
Is there a way to turn of this behaviour, because I think it's slightly annoying.

Does your Desktop also scroll if you move the mouse pointer against
the upper or lower edge without dragging or rubberbanding anything?

That would indicate that your virtual screen size is just
set higher than the physical one.

gambolputty

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Friday, February 13th 2004, 6:31pm

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Does your Desktop also scroll if you move the mouse pointer against
the upper or lower edge without dragging or rubberbanding anything?

That would indicate that your virtual screen size is just
set higher than the physical one.


I don't have any virtual screensizes set, it's only the desktop that's moveable, not the panel etc.
Could somebody try this:
Remove/hide the panel from the bottom and select two icons that is vertically aligned and drag them down towards the bottom of the screen until the lower one isn't visible anymore, then drop them.
If you then rubberband around the one on top and move the mouse downwards to get to the one that isn't visible, doesn't the desktop scroll so you can get to the lowest icon?

cmbofh

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Friday, February 13th 2004, 8:55pm

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Original von gambolputty

Could somebody try this:
Remove/hide the panel from the bottom and select two icons that is vertically aligned and drag them down towards the bottom of the screen until the lower one isn't visible anymore, then drop them.
If you then rubberband around the one on top and move the mouse downwards to get to the one that isn't visible, doesn't the desktop scroll so you can get to the lowest icon?


Indeed, it behaved exactly as you described.
I never noticed that before...

But I'd call that a feature. How else would you
get back to an icon you moved offscreen?
The only other way would be to don't allow this
at all (which maybe would be better...).

cmbofh

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Friday, February 13th 2004, 9:06pm

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Original von gambolputty

...

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gambolputty

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Friday, February 13th 2004, 10:05pm

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Indeed, it behaved exactly as you described.
I never noticed that before...

But I'd call that a feature. How else would you
get back to an icon you moved offscreen?
The only other way would be to don't allow this
at all (which maybe would be better...).


The problem is that I seem to get this behaviour even though I haven't placed any icons outside of the screen.
Also when saving files to the desktop from Konqueror, they seem to be placed randomly on the desktop.

I guess I will have to file a bug report about this one, it would be nice to at least be able to turn it off.

As for the name:
I wish I was. The most forgotten composer in the world!
:wink:

gambolputty

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Friday, February 13th 2004, 10:26pm

I should have checked bugs.kde.org first.
Apparently it's a well known bug.