Icons on desktop can't be rearranged


cube48

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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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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