[OPEN] Icons position

[marwatt]

Hi all
I'm on arcolinuxS with xfce
often after updating the position of the icons on the desktop is reset ... is there any way to avoid this?
thank you

[erikdubois]

did you figure it out?

[marwatt]

unfortunately not.
and unfortunately it doesn't always happen ... surely when there is an update related to xfce ... but I don't understand what

[erikdubois]

Next time it happens take a picture

[marwatt]

ok I hope to track the offending packets on next update... Happy Easter

[frans co]

saw this by coincidence - do not use xfce4 anymore (openbox only)
problem is that xfce desktop creates a different 'icons.screens' file each time there is a slight change in screen resolution

used following script in the past :
"iconset s" to save present icon order and "iconset r" to restore this saved icon order (and remove all other 'icon.screens' files)

#!/bin/bash
# iconset
path="~/.config/xfce4/desktop/"

if [ $1 = s ]; then
cat "$path""icons.screen.latest.rc" > "$path""iconset.txt"
notify-send -i gtk-add "Xfce desktop icons saved!"
echo "Xfce icons saved"
fi

if [ $1 = r ]; then
rm -r "$path"icons.screen0*
cat "$path""iconset.txt" > "$path""icons.screen.latest.rc"
#xfdesktop -R
notify-send -i gtk-refresh "Xfce desktop icons restored!"
echo "Xfce icons restored!"
fi

# iconset

[frans co]

Probably my old script could be replaced by 2 aliases (just an idea reviewing my old script, not tested at all, because no xfce4 installed)

alias ics = 'cd ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/; cat "icons.screen.latest.rc" > "iconset.txt" '
alias icr = 'cd ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/; rm -r "icons.screen0*; cat "iconset.txt" > "icons.screen.latest.rc" '

[marwatt]

Probably my old script could be replaced by 2 aliases (just an idea reviewing my old script, not tested at all, because no xfce4 installed)

alias ics = 'cd ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/; cat "icons.screen.latest.rc" > "iconset.txt" '
alias icr = 'cd ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/; rm -r "icons.screen0*; cat "iconset.txt" > "icons.screen.latest.rc" '

Thank you frans co
Yes there are those "screen" files changes...
but I still haven't figured out who resets them.
I continue to monitor upgrades