Desktop icons keep rearranging whenever I refresh the desktop or boot the system
Desktop icons keep rearranging whenever I refresh the desktop or boot the system.
When I arrange the icons by moving them with the mouse and refresh it, it'd be undone and rearranged by name. What's the solution?
I use Ubuntu 16.04.
I think this is a bug. How should I report it?
Solution 1:
Open a terminal and enter the following commands:
cd ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata
sudo chown $USER home
chmod 755 home
This allows your desktop software to change/save the icon configuration.
(Thanks to the community for correcting spelling and syntax errors.)