Xfce desktop icons change position after reboot

pepper · 2021-12-12 08:45:02

Hello, sometimes when I power off my computer, after the next restart, I get icons in wrong positions (most of them are stacked vertically on the left of the screen). Sometimes I have to rearrange desktop icons in right positions.. so boring.
It seems to happen when I shutdown the computer using the "exit.." button (the button that let me choose if I want to switch user, power off, reboot .. etc) on the top right of the desktop bar. Instead if I use the "power off" button in the same location, it doesn't happen.

Is there a way to prevent this reallocation?

Last edited by pepper (2022-01-24 08:50:56)

robson75 · 2021-12-12 13:44:34

https://askubuntu.com/questions/95104/h … ns-on-xfce

pepper · 2021-12-12 14:12:03

error:

$ sudo chattr +i ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons*
chattr: Operation not supported reading flags of /home/******/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen.latest.rc

seth · 2021-12-12 14:27:07

stat /home/pornlover/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen.latest.rc

It's probably a symlink and I guess that's the username you felt you had to obfuscate?

pepper · 2021-12-12 15:33:32

The name is just 4 normal letters, without spaces, accents or strange characters, just like "marco".

seth · 2021-12-12 15:57:00

Yeah, it doesn't matter and there's no point in obfuscating it.
Check the file type, it's most likely a symlink and symlinks cannot be chattr'd

pepper · 2021-12-12 16:38:27

$ file ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons*

~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen0-2544x1397.rc: Unicode text, UTF-8 text
~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen0-2544x1424.rc: ASCII text
~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen.latest.rc:     symbolic link to ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen0-2544x1397.rc

Last edited by pepper (2021-12-12 16:38:44)

seth · 2021-12-12 16:40:01

quelle surprise.
The "error" is expectable, none, and irrelevant.

robson75 · 2021-12-12 19:07:43

pepper wrote:

error:

$ sudo chattr +i ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons*
chattr: Operation not supported reading flags of /home/******/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen.latest.rc

Despite the information that there is an error, chattr has been entered for the icons file.

Last edited by robson75 (2021-12-12 19:08:46)

pepper · 2021-12-13 13:14:55

mm ok but the icon positions still change after every reboot

seth · 2021-12-13 13:23:56

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xfce#D … themselves

pepper · 2021-12-13 15:16:46

I have

 icons.screen.latest.rc
icons.screen0-2544x1397.rc
icons.screen0-2544x1424.rc

icons.screen0-2544x1424.rc is the one to remove, and the pointed is the other one (icons.screen0-2544x1397.rc)
When I try rm icons.screen0-2544x1424.rc with or without sudo, it returns "operation not allowed" error, I tried with root user using rm -f and using Thunar with superuser privileges, same error.

(thank you for your patience and your time)

Last edited by pepper (2021-12-13 15:17:49)

seth · 2021-12-13 15:43:37

it returns "operation not allowed" error

Because you "chattr +i"'d it…

robson75 · 2021-12-13 19:15:50

pepper wrote:

icons.screen0-2544x1424.rc is the one to remove, and the pointed is the other one (icons.screen0-2544x1397.rc)
When I try rm icons.screen0-2544x1424.rc with or without sudo, it returns "operation not allowed" error, I tried with root user using rm -f and using Thunar with superuser privileges, same error.

If you want to undo chattr +i you must execute it chattr -i, otherwise you will not be able to edit or delete the icons file.

pepper · 2022-01-24 08:54:12

Hello, I continue to lose icons positions after each reboot. This happened for 3 days after latest updates.

ls ~/.config/xfce4/desktop
icons.screen0-2544x1397.rc  icons.screen.latest.rc

I don't have additional .rc files (I also tried to delete icons.screen0-2544x1397.rc waiting for its re-generation but this didn't stop the problem) and I'm forced to keep an icons.rc backup on desktop in order to copy/paste the position each reboot otherwise I should reorder them manually each reboot.

EDIT:
The problem seems to happen only if I decide to not show the bin in the desktop (it seems the presence of the bin can trigger a bug?)

Last edited by pepper (2022-01-24 09:58:35)

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