Comment 164 for bug 1335492

(In reply to alexxcons from comment #120)
> Created attachment 8463 [details]
> patch to add symlink to the latest working config, used as fallback
>
> (In reply to Underpass from comment #119)
> > Any chance to have it solved in version 4.14?
>
> Here we go.
>
> One concrete problem is, that opening the setting menu of the panel will add
> one extra pixel to the panel(some border showing the focus). That will
> change the size of space available for xfdesktop.
> If the desktop is saved now, it will be e.g. saved as
> icons.screen0-1366x701.rc
>
> After a logout + relogin the panel will not have this extra-pixel. So
> xfdesktop searches for icons.screen0-1366x700.rc ... possibly does not
> exist --> Fallback to just place all icons in a line.
>
> The attached patch will always create a symlink "icons.screen.last.rc" on
> save, pointing to the current *.rc file, whenever a new .rc file is written.
>
> This fix cures the symptoms. IMO should be fine for 4.14 .. however later on
> I would start to work on the actual problem, which is, that xfdesktop does
> not use the whole screen, but only the workarea. (Another logical error is,
> that the icon size is not saved in the .rc file, together with the grid, but
> somewhere else, independently)

as i said in comment #88 why using the workarea instead of the whole screen