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