Update: it appears that the bug may be due to some kind of 'race condition' between processes during boot.
After a later boot the icons 'popped back' to their 'proper' positions (twice). They, apparently, hadn't lost any position information in the interim, but have since returned to being drawn shifted upwards. James -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/886667 Title: boot moves desktop icons Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I arrange non-overlapping icons on my desktop for tasks that I am working on or files I want to read later. When I boot the next time the bottom 'row' of icons are moved upwards, on top of icons above them, making it difficult to work with them. This is a 'polish' bug - reducing the predictable usability of Unity. I can 'work around it' by moving files/folders off of the desktop but it isn't the way I find 'natural' (for me) to treat a "desktop" - I expect the things on my "desk" will remain where I left them the previous time I was working there ;-) James --- ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) Package: nautilus 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu2 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Tags: oneiric running-unity Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (23 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/886667/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
