Icons on kde desktop are jumbled

Fabian Niestroj

22 May 2003 22 May '03

17:31

Hi. After each reboot the icons on my kde desktop are jumbled. Why does linux not memorize the positions of the icons? Does anybody know how to fix it? Thanks for your help, Fabian

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Hartmut Meyer

22 May 22 May

18:54

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Hi, Am Donnerstag, 22. Mai 2003 19:31 schrieb Fabian Niestroj:

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After each reboot the icons on my kde desktop are jumbled. Why does linux not memorize the positions of the icons? Does anybody know how to fix it?

The support data base holds an article about this (searching for "ICON" will come up with this article): http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/82_susewatcher.html Greetings from Bremen hartmut

Kevin Donnelly

20:55

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On Thursday 22 May 2003 6:31 pm, Fabian Niestroj wrote:

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After each reboot the icons on my kde desktop are jumbled. Why does linux not memorize the positions of the icons?

This seems to be some sort of bug with this version of KDE, or with 8.2 - previous versions remembered where the icons were. This is a major pain in the neck. Kevin

John

23 May 23 May

03:46

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 May 2003 15:55, Kevin Donnelly wrote:

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On Thursday 22 May 2003 6:31 pm, Fabian Niestroj wrote:

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After each reboot the icons on my kde desktop are jumbled. Why does linux not memorize the positions of the icons?

This seems to be some sort of bug with this version of KDE, or with 8.2 - previous versions remembered where the icons were.

This is a major pain in the neck.

Kevin

My 8.2 is doing fine on remembering where all my icons are placed by me, though after making a new one, and having to relogin or reboot the *first* time after making a new one, it *will* shift somewhat, but once I place it where I want again, and do a relogin or reboot, it stays. So I guess it *is* a sort of bug...maybe? John - -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin and my Gecko eat butterflies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+zZmzH5oDXyLKXKQRAuANAKC42xwna4ljmUA2ql14BhsnSJwEkACdFQcm N6CtNkbRrj+Sgt6rKpRIxow= =yV1Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Rick Friedman

03:51

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I'm another who has the problem of my icons not staying put. No matter where I place them, after a reboot or logoff and re-login, They are all shifted, basically, to the left by KDE. I had this problem with SuSE 8.1 and continue to have it with SuSE 8.2. I suspect the problem is more to do with KDE and the version. I'm using version 3.1.1. Rick On Thu, 22 May 2003 22:46:53 -0500, "John" said:

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On Thursday 22 May 2003 15:55, Kevin Donnelly wrote:

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On Thursday 22 May 2003 6:31 pm, Fabian Niestroj wrote:

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After each reboot the icons on my kde desktop are jumbled. Why does linux not memorize the positions of the icons?

This seems to be some sort of bug with this version of KDE, or with 8.2 - previous versions remembered where the icons were.

This is a major pain in the neck.

Kevin

My 8.2 is doing fine on remembering where all my icons are placed by me, though after making a new one, and having to relogin or reboot the *first* time after making a new one, it *will* shift somewhat, but once I place it where I want again, and do a relogin or reboot, it stays. So I guess it *is* a sort of bug...maybe?

John - -- A butterfly is: Pretty,soft,harmless...and useless, just like M$N. My Penguin and my Gecko eat butterflies. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux)

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Franklin Maurer

04:23

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On Thursday 22 May 2003 11:51 pm, Rick Friedman wrote:

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I'm another who has the problem of my icons not staying put. No matter where I place them, after a reboot or logoff and re-login, They are all shifted, basically, to the left by KDE. I had this problem with SuSE 8.1 and continue to have it with SuSE 8.2. I suspect the problem is more to do with KDE and the version. I'm using version 3.1.1.

Rick

On Thu, 22 May 2003 22:46:53 -0500, "John" said:

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On Thursday 22 May 2003 15:55, Kevin Donnelly wrote:

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On Thursday 22 May 2003 6:31 pm, Fabian Niestroj wrote:

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After each reboot the icons on my kde desktop are jumbled. Why does linux not memorize the positions of the icons?

This seems to be some sort of bug with this version of KDE, or with 8.2 - previous versions remembered where the icons were.

This is a major pain in the neck.

Kevin

This has been talked about on suse-kde, and I believe on this list as well. This is from one of my saved messages... -- Re: [suse-kde] Re: Position of Desktop Icons KDE 3.1.1 Date: 2003-04-25 11:30 am Michael wrote:

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On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:31:48PM +0100, Holger Winkler wrote:

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I place my shortcuts on the Desktop, but when I login for the next time, all icons are misplaced. How can I save my session, so all icons remain in the position I prefer ?

SuSE 8.2 prof. KDE 3.1.1

Copy all the icons (right-click on each) and copy them firstly to your home directory to back them up; and then copy them into the /home/Desktop directory. After this look on the systray, bottom righthand side and you will see (most likely, unless with you have already messed with it) a green ball with a lower case "i" in it. This is the new SuSEwatch thingie introduced in SuSE v8.2. Right click on it and QUIT it. Doing so will wipe off the desktop the icons it originally created but because you have copied them to /home/Desktop they are not lost. After this you the icons will behave as they did in v8.1 et alia. (There is a bug in this SuSEwatch thingie which is causing the problem with the icons.) BTW, when you copy the icons into the /home/Desktop directory you will end up with 2 copies of them on your desktop until you quit/delete the SuSEwatch button on the systray after which you will have a single copy to play with. HTH Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro

jfweber＠bellsouth.net

25 May 25 May

13:54

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*** Reply to message from "Rick Friedman" on Thu, 22 May 2003 23:51:09 -0400***

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'm another who has the problem of my icons not staying put. No matter where I place them, after a reboot or logoff and re-login, They are all shifted, basically, to the left by KDE. I had this problem with SuSE 8.1 and continue to have it with SuSE 8.2. I suspect the problem is more to do with KDE and the version. I'm using version 3.1.1.

same here , kde 3.1.1 and the same problem .. -- j Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control. Afterthought : I know Karate, Kung Fu, and 47 other dangerous words.

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