[plug] GNOME desktop icons look wrong

[John Knight]

Have you tried using KDE instead? I prefer this desktop to Gnome (I am a 
little biased in this respect being the team coordinator for the English UK 
translation) and have found it to be quite configurable and you can choose 
the icon size etc.
anarchist tomato


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>On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Paul Dean wrote:
>
> > Hya,
> > At 09:30 PM 7/06/2001 +0800, you wrote:
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> > >My GNOME 1.0 desktop icons look like this
> > ><http://malcolm.wattle.id.au/gnome-desktop.jpg>.  I'm running X 4.0.1 
>svga
> > >server on a Neomagic chipset.  Has anyone seen anything like it?  Any
> > >suggestions?
> >
> > 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)
>
>Beau Kuiper
>kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au
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> > /***** Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize 
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