On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 09:13:31AM -0700, Marvin Jones via trinity-users wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2019, E. Liddell wrote:
> >
> >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?
> 
> hmmmm....
> Considering what's in there, why would that file's timestamp have
> been updated to the time I powered on and rebooted this A.M.?

Which time stamps? Linux file systems generally record *three* time 
stamps for each file:

atime, ctime and mtime

https://www.unix.com/tips-and-tutorials/20526-mtime-ctime-atime.html

You may be looking at the access time.


-- 
Steve