Interesting....I just enabled auto login on my LL-2.8 to try it & the icons stay in the locked position after a restart.
Unlocked them and restarted & they all jumped left.
Locked them again, turned off auto login, restarted & they stay locked, turned on auto login again, restarted & they stay locked....
I had to create the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and paste the lines below into it to enable auto login as it wouldn't work from Menu > System > Login Settings until I created that file & restarted, 'home' being the username I login with.
I guess with your setup/s it's either something to do with having more than 1 account, or there's some little difference between LL Xfce & Mint Xfce that's triggering it.
Unlocked them and restarted & they all jumped left.
Locked them again, turned off auto login, restarted & they stay locked, turned on auto login again, restarted & they stay locked....
I had to create the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and paste the lines below into it to enable auto login as it wouldn't work from Menu > System > Login Settings until I created that file & restarted, 'home' being the username I login with.
Code:
[SeatDefaults]
autologin-guest=false
autologin-user=home
autologin-user-timeout=0
autologin-session=lightdm-autologin
greeter-session=lightdm-webkit-greeter
user-session=xfceI guess with your setup/s it's either something to do with having more than 1 account, or there's some little difference between LL Xfce & Mint Xfce that's triggering it.