The icons for newly mounted [flash] drives automatically appear directly on top of existing desktop icons even if the the "Keep aligned" context menu has previously been selected. It can easily be corrected by selecting "Organize Desktop by Name" from the context menu, but past versions of Ubuntu have usually accomplished this automatically upon flash drive mounting without the need for doing it manually. I will attach a screenshot where you can see the icons mixed together. It appears to affect only flash drives and only the first one that is inserted, as additional drives that are added appear automatically organized on the Desktop. I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the size of the flash drive or not because my 2GB drive would not appear on the Desktop (or anywhere else for that matter) at all. *UPDATE* My 2GB flash drive was not formatted, that is why it was not read at all. So, it has nothing to do with size of the drive. I plugged in a 32GB drive today and experienced the same problem after doing all the latest updates. I will see if I can upload another photo of the results. 2-23-19
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-34.37-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 2 12:30:21 2018
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: virtualbox, 5.2.10, 4.15.0-34-generic, x86_64: installed
DpkgLog:
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0156] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [103c:1854]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-02 (30 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP 2000 Notebook PC
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-34-generic root=UUID=11b3a365-ed63-4add-b6d2-0d7fe34d05bb ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 06/16/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: Insyde
dmi.bios.version: F.46
dmi.board.asset.tag: Type2 - Board Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: 1854
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: 64.2A
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 5CG3103SQ4
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnInsyde:bvrF.46:bd06/16/2014:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHP2000NotebookPC:pvr088A120000305910000620100:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1854:rvr64.2A:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.family: 103C_5335KV G=N L=CON B=HP S=PRE X=MIN
dmi.product.name: HP 2000 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: 088A120000305910000620100
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.91-2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~18.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~18.04.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2
The desktop view got removed in 3.30 which deprecates that issue