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fleamour

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Registered: 2019-06-22

Posts: 2

2ndry Monitor Not Accepting Desktop Icons

Hi

So...

... I moved all my icons to secondary monitor (main/spanned taskbar) but not persistent with reboot. Now the white arrow does not appear when trying to left click release onto desired position. I should've made icons read only then rebooted, but cannot even move now. I've racked my brains as to what could've been done differently, but clueless. I am using Leap 15.1.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,007

Re: 2ndry Monitor Not Accepting Desktop Icons

Hello and welcome.

Which versions of the following Xfce components are part of Leap 15.1?

xfdesktop -V

xfsettingsd -V

One other thing to try is to run xfdesktop in debug mode  and see if any info is printed to the terminal when you try:

xfdesktop -Q && xfdesktop -e

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fleamour

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Registered: 2019-06-22

Posts: 2

Re: 2ndry Monitor Not Accepting Desktop Icons

xfdesktop -V

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This is xfdesktop version 4.12.4, running on Xfce 4.12.
Built with GTK+ 2.24.32, linked with GTK+ 2.24.32.
Build options:
    Desktop Menu:        enabled
    Desktop Icons:       enabled
    Desktop File Icons:  enabled

xfsettingsd -V

xfsettingsd 4.12.4 (Xfce 4.12)

Running the command:

xfdesktop -Q && xfdesktop -e

Cured the behaviour, so hopefully can make icons read only & voila now?!?