Xfce 4.10 observations/questions

[Sergio]

> > I'm a refugee from gnome, liking what I see in Xfce
> 4.10. Thanks, guys!
> > After a few few days messing around I have the Xfce
> desktop looking and
> > acting almost exactly as I wish. But I thought I'd
> record a few
> > observations/questions before I forget them.
> >
> > 1) I like to have a vertical deskbar (not on auto-hide)
> at the left of the
> > screen. I can do that OK, but there's a conflict over
> real estate between
> > the deskbar and the left-most column of desktop icons.
> I fixed this by
> > hacking on xfdesktop -- cranking up the left margin for
> icon placement to
> > 100 pixels. Is there any way of doing something like
> this without hacking on
> > the source?
> >
> Have you tried Settings > Workspaces > Margins?
> 
Also I suppose you can change the grid in ~/.gtkrc-2.0

http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/tree/README