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hartmada

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Registered: 2011-12-26

Posts: 3

Desktop Icons: How to Prevent Auto Arrange on Restart

Hi all.

Is there any way to prevent the desktop icons from being auto arranged on restart?  This has to do with my desktop icons that I have added through "Create Launcher" and/or "Create URL Link".   

It seems like there should a straight forward way to do this, but Google and the Xfce FAQ did not reveal anything helpful.

Many thanks.

hartmada

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Registered: 2011-12-26

Posts: 3

Re: Desktop Icons: How to Prevent Auto Arrange on Restart

Ok. Just a follow-up.  I've done two clean installs of Linux Mint Debian Xfce: one machine is a Lenovo A300 and the icons get re-arranged on restart, but the other machine is a HP tx1000, and the icons remain in their previous position.

Interestingly, the Lenovo has two displays listed under the Display settings (a "Laptop" and a "HDMI" display), while the HP tx1000 only lists one display ("Laptop").

Last edited by hartmada (2011-12-28 02:44:50)

eric_the_idiot

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Registered: 2011-12-23

Posts: 58

Re: Desktop Icons: How to Prevent Auto Arrange on Restart

If there's a screen resolution change during login you'll run into bug 6149, https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6149 which will mess up your icon positions.
If it's only a couple icons, specifically those with a ] character in the file name, then you're running into bug 2975, https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2975 which is a bug in a library xfdesktop uses.

hartmada

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Registered: 2011-12-26

Posts: 3

Re: Desktop Icons: How to Prevent Auto Arrange on Restart

If there's a screen resolution change during login you'll run into bug 6149, https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6149 which will mess up your icon positions.
If it's only a couple icons, specifically those with a ] character in the file name, then you're running into bug 2975, https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2975 which is a bug in a library xfdesktop uses.

Yep, it's a screen resolution problem.  Thank you.