I'm another victim of this bug - my laptop screen is 1024x768 and I have an external 1280x1024 screen connected. The laptop is always the 'Unity' desktop and the icons do have a habit of disappearing into the non- visible part.
Frustratingly, the mouse does not go into the non-visible part, so I have to 'Select All' and drag the hidden icons down into the viewable area. I have only started using 12.04 today; this is certainly a regression from 10.10 and 11.04 (I didn't use 11.10). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/360970 Title: Multi-monitor - When using two displays with different vertical resolution, icons get lost on the shorter display Status in Ayatana Design: Fix Committed Status in Nautilus: Confirmed Status in Unity: Invalid Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: On a Multi-Monitor setup, where the extended desktop is non- rectangular in shape (ie. the displays are of a different resolution, and their top/bottom/left/right edges are not aligned), desktop icons are placed in non-accessible areas when arranged using the menu option 'View-Organise Desktop by Name' from the Desktop. See the attached image. The top three desktop items are not accessible, and can only be seen in the Workspace Switcher. Please also refer to the 'Non-Rectangular Extended Desktops' section of the Multi-Monitor spec: https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1aHvJ-iIw-59bXTYBmIhQqEx0za2h9jpFE_RhZ2VOvJc/edit#bookmark=id.yph05n82oeff -------------------------------------------------- [Test Case] 1. Set up two monitors side by side 2. Set left monitor to a smaller vertical resolution than the right monitor 3. for i in $(seq 1 50) ; do touch file-${i} ; done 4. Right click on desktop to bring up context menu, then 'Organize Desktop by Name' 5. Should be: All icons from file-1 to file-50 (or as many fit on the screen) should be visible Is: Icons for files at the top and/or bottom of the arranged columns are not visible on any display 6. xrandr --output LVDS1 --off 7. Verify icons are arranged properly on the external monitor 8. Set up monitors one over the other 9. Verify icons are displayed in long columns spanning both displays with all icons shown To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/360970/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
