Gnome lost icons position on the desktop

Same here.

$ uname -a
Linux senftopf 2.6.31-3-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 14 16:04:41 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

It seems to look like after using the "Cleanup by name" function from the right-mouse-menu

the issue was a gvfs one and fixed in karmic some days ago now

the issue is fixed in gvfs 1.3.1-0ubuntu3 and newer

I am using gvfs 1.3.1-0ubuntu3, but it is still happening ...

Also happening in gvfs 1.3.2-0ubuntu4 in Karmic Kola ...

The issue there has been fixed open a new bug if you still have one

detail what you do exactly in the new bug

changing icons and doing a refresh doesn't change the view there

Umm, I did open a new bug, but, I am told to discuss further here, since it was a duplicate of this ...
Here is my original bug.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/404633

>> changing icons and doing a refresh doesn't change the view there
I don't get you ... what do you mean ?

Could yoy answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

As I said in the original post, I think it occurs when nautilus starts ...
When you start a new gnome-session, it happens ...
It can reproduce by killing nautilus with "killall nautilus", nautilus automatically starts and rearrange the icons automatically ...

My apologies for marking that new bug report from Thura as a duplicate. I was under the impression that it was the same issue as this one.

I'm afraid on Ubuntu Karmic gnome-vfs still affects positions of my desktop icons, but in a little different way.

I try to keep my desktop clean and only put the most necessary things there. Specifically, I have several symbolic links to some interesting directories, where I keep my work files. When I arrange icons on the desktop (like in, say, Ubuntu 6.06 - 8.10) and log out, the next time I log in icons for symbolic links are on the LEFT side of my screen, not on the RIGHT side where I wanted them.

See attached screenshots:
* files-dirs-shortcuts-fine.png - that's what I intend to do
* shortcuts-wrong.png - that's what happens after logging out and logging back in
* test-dir-created.png - after I have created a test directory somewhere on the desktop
* test-dir-moved.png - after moving the test icon, logging out and logging in

It seems like regular files and directories are unaffected, and for some reason only symlinks are treated differently.

I also attached two files from ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata, since I've found the names of my desktop icons there (as well as interesting strings like 'icon' and 'postion').

$ uname -a
Linux hobbit 2.6.31-10-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 10 23:33:50 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg -l | grep gnome-vfs
ii libgnome-vfs2.0-cil 2.24.1-4ubuntu1 CLI binding for GnomeVFS 2.24

Same here with karmic completely updated. As Wiktor states, it only happens with symbolic links.

The problem is solved for me.

The same problem has been affecting me; it is NOT fixed using gvfs 1.4.0-0ubuntu1 and libgnomevfs* 1:2.24.1-4ubuntu1.

Is there a newer version that fixes it?

I have those same versions. Just updated completely karmic and started working.

I have a fully updated karmic and a couple days ago i started to have this bug. I even tried to delete the whole directory ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata to force some update but didn't help.

For me the problem happens with all kind of files, not symlink only

Here it seems to only happen to symlinks that link to files on a different partition.

Same issue here, exactly as Zeno described.
If within same partition, symlink icon position is remembered both if link has absolute or relative path
If outside of partition, symlink icon position is lost both if link has absolute or relative path
Same issue with links to network shares (I guess this counts as "not same partition")

Running Karmic 64bit with all updates, including the "proposed" ones

Correct, this nailed it - only symlinks that point to inodes on
another filesystem are affected (desktop position is lost).

I've just confirmed it by creating a symbolic link on the desktop
to one of directories from my $(HOME). The position is correctly
kept after logging out and logging back in.

A regression, maybe?

hi there - i do not understand: is there a fix or not?

i still have the same problem : ALL icons (links and files) on the left.

updated gvfs to version 1.4.1. - does not help.

is not fixed for file in different partion

this bug is closed try to see the new bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/411322

Issue is not resolved for Lucid.

After reboot all icons are on the left side.

This bug happened to me at the same time as bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/405432. I solved this problem simply clearing the directory ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata (it seems that there gnome holds the position of icons on the desktop) like this:

rm ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/*

and now icons remember the position.

I had the same issue with ubuntu karmic.Solved with the "rm ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/*".
Before this, even a refresh moved all the icons on the left side,except the mounted drives icons.

Hi, this bug is still happening. It was happening on 9.04 and now, after I upgraded to 10.04 it's still happening.

$ uname -a
Linux luky-laptop 2.6.32-32-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 20 21:54:21 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

Gnome 2.30.2
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx