On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 07:40:21 -0700 (MST)
"Marvin Jones via trinity-users" <trinity-users@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Jan 2019, borglabs4 wrote:
> 
> >Hi people
> >
> >I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this.
> >
> >User PCLOS, it happens on both 32 and 64 bit versions.
> >
> >After arranging the desktop icons (all kinds), they rearrange
> >themselves each time I load the TDE. They just scatter everywhere.
> >
> >I have tried, arranging to grid, locking in place. No setting seems to
> >work. When I lock the icons in place, they still rearrange and then
> >lock.
> >
> >Any ideas?
> 
> I sometimes have a "floater" problem.
> My icons are more or less arranged in several columns on the left side
> of my screen.  Every now and then an icon will float up to fill in an
> empty slot above it -- even with "Lock In Place" set.
> 
> I unlock, pull it back down, re-lock, and it stays put for a week or so.

That sounds about right.  I have my icons grouped around the edges of the
desktop; they tend to get pushed upwards and inwards.  I'll have to do some
testing to see if it also happens on my laptop (rebuilt out of git sources only
a few days ago)--I think I saw it there while I was wrestling with the display
manager problem, but I'm so used to it at this point that I just roll my eyes and
stuff the icons back into their places without the problem really registering.

The governing file seems to be .trinity/share/apps/kdesktop/IconPositions .
Maybe editing that and then locking it so that it can't be written, assuming
that doesn't cause TDE to fail to start?

E. Liddell