Dear Gnome people. Is there a reliable way to right-attach panel applets? May laptop screen and my external monitor have different resolutions, and I havn’t found a reliable way (except making two panels) of getting some of my applets to stick to the right. I usually keep my launchers on the left, while vairous system status icons on the right part. But when switching to a higher resolution, at most one will move to the right end of the panel at the new resolition, while the others just stay in place (i.e. left-attached at a given pixel position).

There are so many smart layout managers, GTK pretty much always uses flexible layout managers, why is the Gnome panel relying pixel offsets?

It has been suggested to me a couple of times that I could achieve this via gconf. However, since the gconf changes are not reflected at runtime but frequently overwritten I did not get this to work reliably even just for two applets.

Thank you. If you have any comments, please email me via erich () debian org.

On a side note, this is also the first true post to my new blog. :-)