Correct, this nailed it - only symlinks that point to inodes on
another filesystem are affected (desktop position is lost).
I've just confirmed it by creating a symbolic link on the desktop
to one of directories from my $(HOME). The position is correctly
kept after logging out and logging back in.
I'm afraid on Ubuntu Karmic gnome-vfs still affects positions of my
desktop icons, but in a little different way.
I try to keep my desktop clean and only put the most necessary things
there. Specifically, I have several symbolic links to some interesting
directories, where I keep my work files. Wh
Freshly updated karmic, "normal" keyboard shortcuts do not work (no
Alt+F1, Alt+F2, etc.), only multimedia keys work and other compiz
shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right for rotate to left/right workspace,
Ctrl+Alt+LeftMouseButton for cube, etc).
Additionally, gnome-keybinding-properties crash - please
Alas, after going from the GNOME 2.22.1 announcement:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2008-April/msg00039.html
following to the sources:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.22/2.22.1/sources/
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.22/2.22.1/sources/gcalctool-5.22.1.tar.gz
This problem haunted me as well for a good month or so.
Thanks for explaining it and tracking it down to the source.
The patch attached at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=107901&action=view
seems to fix the issue. It's a simple fix that modifies a .glade file and
a translation file (
