Comment 141 for bug 1335492

I have the same bug for the last 2 years including Xubuntu 16.10: desktop icons are re-arranged after restart.

My hotfix is an autostarting batch, where the 'backup*' directory contains my original files:

sleep 1
(cd ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/backup-2016-10-20/ && cp *.* ..)
xfdesktop --reload