Turn off desktop grid snap

[kjacobs]

Well crud.....I thought we had this solved, but alas, not so much anymore. I had to recreate my public user profile again.....and I got all the icons lines up again and locked the file. Everything seemed fine until I switched the user to a desktop user and set auto login for the public user. Now when I restart the computer the icons are all on the left again. When it was working I only had one icon file in the xfce/desktop/ folder for the
icon layout. Now what I see in the xfce/desktop/ folder is an additional icon file that was not prior to changing the permission and auto login. I am baffled as to why it would change if its locked.......uggggg.

[JmaCWQ]

Did you try running the lock command while logged in as each different user?
I only use a single user on my setup so haven't tried it with multiple users, but I'm thinking the lock needs to be run when logged in to each account.

My folder has 14 of those files in it currently.
One of them shows today's date for last accessed, the others all show the date I performed the last lock command, the one with today's date for accessed would be the one it's reading the current icon positions from.
I think a new file is created each time I unlock, move things around on the desktop then relock again.

[kjacobs]

OK....I tried locking the admin account, and the public account was already locked. I had only locked the public account once, so I was surprised to see the second file show up in the folder. Even after locking both account, the public account still boots with messed up icons now. Presently is have these two files in the public folder....

icons.screen0-1264x975.rc
icons.screen0-0x0.rc

The first is the one that was created and locked. It worked fine after a few reboots when I was testing. Then I set the account as a desktop user and auto login. After the next reboot, I got the second file and all the icons were on the left again. Of course, the second file has bogus info for icon position, so that explains the icon issue again. I just have no idea why it decided to create a new file on its own.

Oh yes.....I have not even setup the profile refresh part yet, this is just a 2 user setup at this point. It amazes me how long this project has taken.....LOL. I can build normal linux boxes in no time flat, but this one is beating me up.....

[kjacobs]

Alrighty....a little more testing and I can confirm the issue causing the icons to not be locked is caused by the autologin function. As long as that is turned off, the icons will remain where locked. Once the autologin is turned on and the computer is rebooted, the icons revert back to the left.....go figure! I may have no choice but to switch back to the version they are running on the rest of the machines in order to maintain hardware compatibility with their computers........geeeeez.

[JmaCWQ]

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.

Code:

[SeatDefaults]
autologin-guest=false
autologin-user=home
autologin-user-timeout=0
autologin-session=lightdm-autologin
greeter-session=lightdm-webkit-greeter
user-session=xfce

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.

[kjacobs]

Well now......there is a part of me that wants to change the public machine over to LL as the first part of a migration.....LOL. Yes, I think Mint uses mdm, instead of lightdm, for the autologin.....there must be a slight difference in those. I will think very seriously about switching them over to LL.....as I always seem to return to LL when the other distros give me grief.....LOL.

BTW.....I find it interesting you are still on LL 2.8, as am I. I tested LL 3.0 on my daughters computer (who BTW loves linux) and another machine of mine and found some minor stability issues with it on those machines. Never brought myself to changing my main desktop over.....and am curious how the recent LL 3.2 will do.

Anyway, many thanks again for the help......

Ken

[JmaCWQ]

No probs for the help, hopefully you'll find an easy solution.

I like 2.8, it's also my goto distro when the others I'm playing with either won't do what I want or irritate me somehow, LOL.
Had no stability issues with 3.0 but there were a couple of things that I couldn't get working how I wanted, a result of the upgraded Ubuntu & Xfce versions I think.
Haven't tried 3.2 so far, one day when I get some free time I plan to.
And I'm not really a Systemd fan yet, it appears that occasionally it causes issues with my hardware that affects the network, not very often but only happens if I'm using a Systemd init distro.
2.8 uses Upstart which never seems to cause any problems with the hardware I have.