(In reply to alexxcons from comment #120) > Created attachment 8463 [details] > patch to add symlink to the latest working config, used as fallback > > (In reply to Underpass from comment #119) > > Any chance to have it solved in version 4.14? > > Here we go. > > One concrete problem is, that opening the setting menu of the panel will add > one extra pixel to the panel(some border showing the focus). That will > change the size of space available for xfdesktop. > If the desktop is saved now, it will be e.g. saved as > icons.screen0-1366x701.rc > > After a logout + relogin the panel will not have this extra-pixel. So > xfdesktop searches for icons.screen0-1366x700.rc ... possibly does not > exist --> Fallback to just place all icons in a line. > > The attached patch will always create a symlink "icons.screen.last.rc" on > save, pointing to the current *.rc file, whenever a new .rc file is written. > > This fix cures the symptoms. IMO should be fine for 4.14 .. however later on > I would start to work on the actual problem, which is, that xfdesktop does > not use the whole screen, but only the workarea. (Another logical error is, > that the icon size is not saved in the .rc file, together with the grid, but > somewhere else, independently)
as i said in comment #88 why using the workarea instead of the whole screen -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1335492 Title: [4.11.8] Desktop icons rearrange on each login To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xfdesktop/+bug/1335492/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
