Fwd: Gnome 3 favorites list cut off at bottom of screen

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/07/14 20:03, Jake Dancer wrote:
> Update.   Now that I know where Gnome keeps my favorites information, I made a copy of this database file, then started removing entries from my favorites.  The icons resize feature is still working.  I got down to a single icon, which I could not remove.  (There was no option to remove the last icon available.)  I then removed the "user" file completely and rebooted.  The "user" file returned with the single icon I had left.  There must be another copy of the information from this file somewhere else.  Any ideas where?  I then began adding icons into my favorites selection.  Each icron was added to the bottom of the chain, as they should.  As the favorites icron chain got to the bottom of the screen, the chain scrolled off the bottom.  I could still add icons but I could not see the bottom 3, or so, icons that I added last.  As I added even more icons, the chain resized to use smaller icons, but I still could not see the bottom 3.  It us almost as if somewhere something
> believes the screen is actually deeper that it really is by an inch or two.  Any ideas how to fix this?  Any ideas how to get the gnome-shell to rebuild the "user" file?  Any ideas at all?

I'll answer part of your question for which I got the answer by testing/observing.

The "user" file returns with the single icon since the "user" file is read into memory at login and then apparently written out at logout.  I don't know if this is done unconditionally or if the logout process first checks for the existence of the file.

If you were to logout, then use ssh to login to the system and delete that file it will be recreated on login to GNOME but with a set of default applications what are stored someplace in the system files. 

FWIW, the max number I can add is 22 and get really tiny almost unrecognizable icond.  If I add more, they seem to get added but other potentially disappear.  Kind of late in my day.


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