[plug] GNOME desktop icons look wrong

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Beau Kuiper wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Paul Dean wrote:
> 
> > I haven't played around to much with gnome, as I prefer enlightenment, but
> > it looks like a icon size problem.
> > Have a look in your control-panel to see if there is a size setting for icons.
> > Also what res are you running at, looks like 640x480, big icons, menu bar
> > etc...
> >
> 
> Ouch, 640x480 is really, really painful under X. I would run it at least
> in 1024x768 (even on a 15 inch monitor)

It's 800x600 and it's a laptop display with that as the maximum
resolution.  But the icon sizing is not the problem.  It is the
transparency (or lack thereof) of the background of the icons.

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