Although the bug report is very old I thought I add my report to this because the problem is very similar.
I tried to protect the settings against accidental change by removing the write rights for the link files(~/.idesktop$chmod a-w *). This caused idesk to crash when the icons were dragged. Of course the changed position cannot be written to the link file but I think that this should not lead to a crash. The error output was: "Cannot load file: /home/<name>/.idesktop/iceaweasel.lnk!! Exiting." Technical information: Debian Lenny stable $ idesk -v Idesk 0.7.5 $ fluxbox -v Fluxbox 1.0.0 : (c) 2001-2007 Fluxbox Team $ uname -a Linux <name> 2.6.26-2-486 #1 Thu Mar 26 00:13:41 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux -- Neu: GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate + Telefonanschluss für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://dslspecial.gmx.de/freedsl-surfflat/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

