2975 – xfdesktop does not remember the icon position of certain icons

xfdesktop does not remember the icon position of certain icons

Status:

RESOLVED: FIXED

Priority:
Medium

Severity:
minor

Product:
Xfdesktop

Component:

General

Comments

Description Moritz Heiber editbugs

2007-03-05 02:21:28 CET

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061220 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Swiftfox)
Build Identifier: 

xfdesktop constantly fails to remember the positions for the two icons "File System" and "Trash" although those icons where generated alongside "Home" during the first startup. Wherever I drag them on the screen .. on the next start they appear at the top left corner again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start xfdesktop
2. Move "Trash" and/or "File System" icon
3. Restart xfdesktop

Actual Results:  
The icons appear at the upper left corner.

Expected Results:  
The icons should actually stay at the position I dragged them to in the first place.

On request, I attached the the rc file which handles the icon placement (supposedly).

Comment 1 Moritz Heiber editbugs

2007-03-05 02:22:14 CET

Created attachment 1018 
Xfdesktop icon RC file

Comment 2 Manuel C. 2007-10-05 20:24:55 CEST

I can confirm issues with the icons "position remembering".

Comment 3 Daniele C. 2008-06-21 06:41:57 CEST

I am also bugged by this bug. My icons' positions are not always remembered across sessions.

I think xfdesktop should instantly save the icons positions to file, so that on next session they will be remembered (even in case of crash).

Comment 4 gregg128 2011-03-03 11:54:30 CET

I can confirm this annoying bug. Please oh please fix it! Thanks.

Comment 5 Eric Koegel editbugs

2011-11-12 14:23:09 CET

Created attachment 3951 
Patch to escape out the ] delimiter from files when reading/writing to the icon RC file.

This patch changes the ] to a non-printable character (audible bell) when reading/writing to the icon RC file. This will allow filenames to have ] anywhere in the filename and correctly remember their position.

Comment 6 Mike Massonnet editbugs

2011-11-13 16:50:44 CET

*** Bug 5935 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Mike Massonnet editbugs

2011-11-13 16:50:54 CET

*** Bug 8068 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Eric Koegel editbugs

2011-11-14 20:59:31 CET

Comment on attachment 3951 
Patch to escape out the ] delimiter from files when reading/writing to the icon RC file.

There's a better way to fix this.

Comment 9 Eric Koegel editbugs

2011-11-15 18:01:45 CET

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8150 is the patch I submitted for this fix. I submitted it to libxfce4util because there's where the root cause of this bug lies.

Comment 10 Eric Koegel editbugs

2013-11-27 02:20:01 CET

The libxfce4util bug was fixed. Xfdesktop now also has a couple patches to make it better at placing the icons where they belong as well as better handling for device icons:
http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=b73e824438ed12d85e63d601dcc117165b648daf

http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=c014cb3231259ea4ffc4477f7ce7c7531f1c5d12

Bug #2975

Reported by:
Moritz Heiber

Reported on: 2007-03-05
Last modified on: 2013-11-27

Duplicates (2):

5935 icon of file with `]` in name does not remember position on desktop
8068 xfdesktop does not remember the icon position of files with [] signs in filename

People

Assignee:
Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail)

CC List:
6 users

Version

Version:
4.6.0

Target Milestone:
Xfce 4.6

Attachments

Xfdesktop icon RC file (759 bytes, text/plain) 2007-03-05 02:22 CET , Moritz Heiber	no flags
Patch to escape out the ] delimiter from files when reading/writing to the icon RC file. (2.44 KB, patch) 2011-11-12 14:23 CET , Eric Koegel	no flags

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