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Sudowoodo

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From: Saturn Valley

Registered: 2014-04-27

Posts: 62

Xfce desktop items rearrange themselves between reboots

Hello, I am a new Arch Linux user and this is my first thread. Please pardon any possible mistakes I made on this post.
Almost every time Xfce starts the desktop icons are rearranged. After searching the wiki, I found this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xf … themselves

So after deleting the said files, I restarted Xfce. The problem was not gone.
Then I noticed that it was more complicated: I think it's not the desktop item positions that are changing, but the desktop's margins.
Not all icons are rearranged; only those on the right and the bottom sides of the desktop, the last collumns and rows.
In /home/user/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen0-1350x728.rc these files' positions change back to row=0 col=0 and cannot be placed back to their original location.
The next time I restart Xfce the inaccesible spaces on the desktop are ok once again, and I place the items there. Then the problem repeats itself.
Is there any configuration file I should have manually edited?

I'm using Xfce, xfwm with compositing enabled, and no conky or any other desktop decorations.
inxi -G output:

Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GF106 [GeForce GTS 450]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.15.1 driver: nvidia
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.07hz
           GLX Renderer: GeForce GTS 450/PCIe/SSE2
           GLX Version: 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.121

EDIT: This might be actually caused by removing USB flash drives while the computer is shut down. The mentioned file is not changed, ergo a mess is caused when it's read on startup. I can't confirm this, though.
EDIT #2: No, it happened again, and I had not removed any usb flash drives.

Last edited by Sudowoodo (2014-05-18 07:45:37)

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