Comment 59 for bug 1335492

I'm also having this problem in the latest Xubuntu 14.04. After both logout AND reboot, icon positions are always reset starting from top left. This is worse than it was before some xfdesktop updates that were pushed to Xubuntu a month or two ago (latest version in the repo is 4.11.8-0ubuntu0.1.

Although spatially sorted from top to bottom and left to right from the top left corner, icons are not sorted in alphabetical folder/file order. Their order seems kind of random. I wonder if the row/column indices are getting confused.

I've tried saving/not saving session on logout, clearing sessions, and deleting all .rc files in /.config/xfce4/xfdesktop, to no effect.

Thaddaeus, I built and installed the latest xfdesktop from git (easy as pie, no wild dependencies!), have tested it a bunch, no luck. No matter what I do, icon positions are reset on every logout and every reboot, so it seems your latest patch pushed to master hasn't helped.

$ xfdesktop --version
This is xfdesktop version 4.12.0git-0e4a8ee, running on Xfce 4.10.
Built with GTK+ 2.24.23, linked with GTK+ 2.24.23.
Build options:
    Desktop Menu: enabled
    Desktop Icons: enabled
    Desktop File Icons: enabled

Anything else I can do to help debug?