Aah yes, the icons jumping left on a restart.
That is something that has annoyed me for quite some time & only seems to happen with the Xfce desktop environment.
I currently have installs of Linux Lite 2.8, Linux Lite 3.0, Debian Jessie and MX-15, all with Xfce & all have the same issue.
I've never been able to find a permanent cure for it but there is a way of locking the desktop icons in position so they don't all jump left upon a restart.
I'm not sure if this method will work with a hidden profile that's refreshed at every restart as I've never used or tried it like that, only one way to find out I guess...
Get the icons where you want them then open Terminal & enter the following command:
That should lock the positions of the icons so they don't move around on a restart, it does that by locking the file the icon positions are read from so it can't be written to or changed.
They can still be moved around on the desktop by dragging but a restart or desktop refresh (F5) will realign them to the positions they were in when the lock command was run.
To unlock the icons again use this command:
Even with the icons locked any new icons added to the desktop will be placed top left, they can be moved around & will usually hold position until a restart but for them to be permanently moved to a new location the unlock command has to be run, the new icon/s placed in the desired location, then the lock command run again.
If they're not locked & F5 is hit I find they all jump to the top left again, which is the hardcoded Xfce default.
They can be deleted while locked without any problems.
There's a couple of other threads here about the same jumping left issue and there are different solutions in those threads that have worked for other people, though locking the icon file as described above is the only way I have found to permanently keep them where I put them.
That is something that has annoyed me for quite some time & only seems to happen with the Xfce desktop environment.
I currently have installs of Linux Lite 2.8, Linux Lite 3.0, Debian Jessie and MX-15, all with Xfce & all have the same issue.
I've never been able to find a permanent cure for it but there is a way of locking the desktop icons in position so they don't all jump left upon a restart.
I'm not sure if this method will work with a hidden profile that's refreshed at every restart as I've never used or tried it like that, only one way to find out I guess...
Get the icons where you want them then open Terminal & enter the following command:
Code:
sudo chattr +i ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons*That should lock the positions of the icons so they don't move around on a restart, it does that by locking the file the icon positions are read from so it can't be written to or changed.
They can still be moved around on the desktop by dragging but a restart or desktop refresh (F5) will realign them to the positions they were in when the lock command was run.
To unlock the icons again use this command:
Code:
sudo chattr -i ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons*Even with the icons locked any new icons added to the desktop will be placed top left, they can be moved around & will usually hold position until a restart but for them to be permanently moved to a new location the unlock command has to be run, the new icon/s placed in the desired location, then the lock command run again.
If they're not locked & F5 is hit I find they all jump to the top left again, which is the hardcoded Xfce default.
They can be deleted while locked without any problems.
There's a couple of other threads here about the same jumping left issue and there are different solutions in those threads that have worked for other people, though locking the icon file as described above is the only way I have found to permanently keep them where I put them.