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cyberplunk

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Registered: 2023-01-13

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Deleting Obsolete Icon References from icons.screen0.yaml

~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen0.yaml

This file appears to keep position data for desktop files even after those files have been removed. Is this expected behavior or a bug? In addition, is there a way to "clean up" this file to only contain references to existing desktop files? I could probably script something but would prefer to find a pre-existing way of doing it.

I'm on Xubuntu 25.04, xfdesktop version 4.20.1, running on Xfce 4.20 with X11 and Thunar 4.20.2.

Last edited by cyberplunk (2025-10-05 04:13:44)

ToZ

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Re: Deleting Obsolete Icon References from icons.screen0.yaml

You could create a bug report for the issue.

Regarding manually editing the file, see: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/-/issues/373.

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cyberplunk

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Registered: 2023-01-13

Posts: 28

Re: Deleting Obsolete Icon References from icons.screen0.yaml

You could create a bug report for the issue.

Regarding manually editing the file, see: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/-/issues/373.

I won't try to edit the file when it's in use. But if you're saying it's likely a bug, I'll go ahead and file one. Thanks!

k-3.14

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From: Rhineland

Registered: 2017-02-18

Posts: 166

Re: Deleting Obsolete Icon References from icons.screen0.yaml

You could create a bug report for the issue.

Regarding manually editing the file, see: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/-/issues/373.

I won't try to edit the file when it's in use. But if you're saying it's likely a bug, I'll go ahead and file one. Thanks!

Stumbled over that issue with that icons.screen0.yaml file in ~/.config/xfce4/desktop today. I am on Debian 13.2.

Found the bug report here https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/-/issues/435

but there seems to be no reaction on the developer side.  Assignee - None, Labels - None. ??

This is an issue, just mixing those obsolete positioning settings with actual data and bloating that file.

Karl