Some desktop icons non-sticky

[richtea]

This is progressive, but has concerned only browser icons thus far. First it affected the TOR icon, which on start-up would line up in the left-hand column instead of sticking to its position as of shutdown. After a while, the Links2 icon followed suit, and now Chromium joined the pack.
I have not tried any remedies yet - any suggestions?

[JmaCWQ]

Been ongoing for some time that has - https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/insta...jump-left/
There are some tips in that thread for locking the icons so they hold position.

[rijnsma]

Install lightdm-gtk-greeter.
Do in 'settings' -> session and startup -> save always the desktop on logout.

So.. don't save in the logout-box anymore. Btw that option disappears with 'always save' in the session & startup-tab.
(Might there be some problem you can always do: sessiontab -> clear saved sessions. The rest is like I wrote.) 

I hope it workes for you, here the icons behave perfect now.
I could make my Xfce4-desktop at last in LL.

[richtea]

Thanks for responding, guys!

Having gone to the suggested link, I noticed rijnsma was a seasoned problem-solver on this, so went along with what he suggested. I met with little success, with the icons remaining in place once in something like two dozen attempts. The "Clean saved sessions" in Session tab would not help, so I tried BleachBit before rebooting just in case, and assumed it did the trick. But the science was not settled: could not replicate!

Will go back to the original thread to see what else might work. Ongoing, indeed.

[JmaCWQ]

You be welcome  8)
So far the only thing I've found that works is to run

Code:

sudo chattr +i ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons*

That locks the icon config file from being written to so they stay where they're put.

To unlock so their positions can be changed run

Code:

sudo chattr -i ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons*

They can still be moved around while locked but a desktop refresh (F5), logout/login/restart etc. puts them back to their locked positions.
Any new icons will still be placed in the left hand column, top to bottom regardless of locked or unlocked.

[rijnsma]

Thanks for responding, guys!

Having gone to the suggested link, I noticed rijnsma was a seasoned problem-solver on this, so went along with what he suggested. I met with little success, with the icons remaining in place once in something like two dozen attempts. The "Clean saved sessions" in Session tab would not help, so I tried BleachBit before rebooting just in case, and assumed it did the trick. But the science was not settled: could not replicate!

Will go back to the original thread to see what else might work. Ongoing, indeed.

Sorry to hear, Richtea.
They stay put here for days now.
I have JmaCWQ's two commands also on the desk. Nothing wrong with it.

Btw. the whole distro is behaving 100% now. Internal too. Very quiet.
And so the processor has a lot of time left for all kinds of things.
I've seen many distro's but LL 2.8 is a fine one when all is set right. :wink:

[richtea]

Code:

sudo chattr +i ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons*

This is golden - thanks, JmaCWQ!

Out of curiosity, I set up another user account, playing with desktop icons there. They all stay put without any special effort whatever, so I can only assume some corruption affected my account, not the system as such.