On Aug 11, 2011 9:19 PM, "Colin Law" <<a href="mailto:clanlaw@googlemail.com">clanlaw@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: > > On 11 August 2011 19:29, Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > [...] > > For this reason, I position my smaller screen aligned with the top of > > my larger screen. That way, under Unity, I get the top panel/menu bar > > on both monitors, and there's nothing to "fall off" the bottom - > > unlike classic GNOME. Works rather better than classic GNOME, in fact. > > Once or twice I have accidentally dragged a desktop icon into the off > screen area and had to move the screen down to find it again. In fact > the system had a tendency to create icons in the offscreen area at one > time, but that has not happened for a while so perhaps the code has > been improved. I can see that would be highly irritating! I manged it in the GNOME 2 days but oddly not since. Sometimes you can lasso a group of icons including off-screen ones & drag them all up a bit - agree a few tries, that aforesaid worked for me. - LP