Icons on desktop can't be rearranged

[cube48]

The icons on my desktop can't be rearranged by drag'n'drop. Some days ago I accidentally moved the trashbin icon into the middle of the desktop during the nub 'calibration' after boot. So it must be somehow possible but I'm not able to replicate it.


I found that the desktop folder in my home dir was owned by root. Changing the ownership to my account didn't help.


Appearance of PNDs placed in /media/MYCARD/pandora/desktop/ works fine. I'm on latest HF5.


Did I miss some 'lock icons' setting somewhere?

 

[Mycohl]

Thunar apparently doesn't support dragging of desktop icons, at least not the version that Pandora uses.


You can edit ~/Applications/Settings/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen0.rc to manually change the row and column of each entry.


After editing that file, you probably want to 'killall xfdesktop' from a terminal to have it reload the file.

 

[Silent-Hunter]

Thunar apparently doesn't support dragging of desktop icons, at least not the version that Pandora uses.


You can edit ~/Applications/Settings/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen0.rc to manually change the row and column of each entry.


After editing that file, you probably want to 'killall xfdesktop' from a terminal to have it reload the file.

Just press F5 on the desktop, that'll do it.

 

[Jey123456]

its probablly a bug, but i was able to drag the icons around sorta.


hold shift and try to move it real quick with the touchscreen


if your fast enough, it will move a bit lol.

 

[gruso]

There is a guide to moving icons in here:

 

[cube48]

Thanks Gruso!


I must be getting old. Searched the tweaks list several times and didn't notice it. Was this added recently? Also search over both forums was not successful, perhaps I asked for wrong key words.


I simply love this community, I've been in a lot of forums/communities but this one is far most friendly and supportive. Thanks again.

 

[xopher]

I like to think of the method to moving icons as a game native to the Pandora.