John,

The above sounds as if you're moving some box or control, as some part of
a GUI?

Exactly that. The control that holds the icons is part of the desktop
window. Its just a listview set to icon mode.

The drop-down list includes Icon Spacing (Horizontal) and Icon Spacing
(Vertical). They're in pixels; another item in the list is Icon, where you
can select icon size and font.

Yep, I found those where jj, shadow and you told me.

Sadly there's no Offset.

Yup. Hence my attempt to just move-and-resize the control itself.

Nothing that matches the description if them being "pushed down-and-off
the control", though.

Maybe the description is not the best one. I'm actually pulling the bottom
of the control up, while the contents of the control (the icons) do not
move.

Its the same as what happens when you have the "file explorer" open on a
folder with more entries (files, subfolders) than it can display. When you
than move the border without the scrollbar left / up you will, at some
point, notice the icons being "cut in half" because the border is placed
ontop of it.

Thats the effect I have. But in my case without a visible border and no
scrollbars (not that enableing either of those helps, I've already tried
:-) )

Regards,
Rudy Wieser