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fredmyra

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Registered: 2024-06-29

Posts: 5

Can't maintain arrangement of desktop icons when booting or rebooting

Every time I spend some time arranging my desktop icons in a convenient  way I end up  frustrated that they return to some 'default' arrangement upon booting/rebooting.

I have been living with this for some years across  several multiboot machines. All  (LINUX) distros exhibit the same behaviour.

I have never tried hard to solve it. Now I am inclined to do it and have gone through listings for searching keys "desktop icons arrangement" and "desktop icons position" from 2008 to 2025 and could not find any significant answer.

I hope that is due to faulty searching strategy on my side.

Can anyone throw a light on this?

Last edited by fredmyra (2026-01-09 18:47:27)

CwF

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Registered: 2018-01-28

Posts: 323

Re: Can't maintain arrangement of desktop icons when booting or rebooting

The explanation here is very general. So an ongoing multi distro multi desktop issue, or a recent Xfce change - I'm not sure.

Does this thread look familiar?
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=164253