On Wednesday 20 July 2005 02:44 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 20 Jul 2005 10:32, Paul Kaplan wrote: > > I'm using mdk10.1 with kde 3.3.1 and Xinerama. About a month ago, the > > Desktop icons stopped remembering where they were placed and now they all > > go to the upper left of the screen every time I restart kde. AFAIK, I > > all of the configuration settings should allow session management of > > icons - where I place them, but the emperical evidence says otherwise! > > I heard there was a bug to this effect in early versions of kde3.3, but > > it wasn't there when I first installed about 8 months ago. Also, there's > > a discussion on the SUSE lists about a problem with a program called > > susewatcher, but that's probably not the issue here. > > Any ideas what to set to allow the session to remember desktop icon > > placement. TIA > > Someone asked about this on the kde lists, and was told to Save Session. > You and I both know that this does not necessarily work. However, after > having problems with this on this box, every time they came up scrambled I > put them straight again and saved the session. By the time I had beaten it > over the head half a dozen times it finally got the message :-) > > Anne I finally came to an interesting solution. If I save a file to the desktop during a session and then delete it, I can rearrange all the icons and they will then stay where they are put after rebooting. It was surprising that even after locating the desktop config file and manually editing it, I was still unable to force the changes. ...go figure. Paul
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