Dewbie wrote:..same problem as 4.21; icons pile up in bottom-left corner of screen.
Thanks Dewbie. It seems that this occurs on some puppies only when using specific video resolutions (When the 'pinboard icon grid step' parameter is not a clean fraction of the desktop resolution). In the case of Alpha3a the quickest fix is as follows:
1) Right click one of the desktop icons (eg 'paint') and select 'RoxFiler' and 'Options'
2) In the left hand pane click on the word 'Pinboard'
3) In the right hand pane look at the bottom for 'Icon grid step', set it to 'Fine' then click OK.
4) Click Menu, Desktop, drive icons manager, then tick all three boxes and do the 'erase and re-draw'
5) Click 'menu' then 'Shutdown', then in the shutdown menu choose 'Advanced' then restart x server.
There is another way which some users may prefer:
Click the Files icon (top left) and open the .config directory
Open the rox.sourceforge.net directory
Open the ROX-Filer directory
Rightclick the 'Options' file and select 'Edit with Geany'
Almost right at the bottom of that file you will see an entry for 'pinboard_grid_step' which can be changed to 1 or 2 (the previous default will have been 16 for medium grid step or 32 for coarse grid step)
Save the file and restart x.
If I find Alpha3a settles down to being useful longterm on some of my older machines I will probably make an updated iso with some bugfixes for these usability issues. I do quite like the 4.2 series.