Mageia 9. The destop icons keep rearranging themselves into the
alphabetical order rather than the order I want them in ( which is
roughly grouping into similar use). This happens on reboots on my laptop (about 5 reboots a day). May times it does not do so, and then it will sudeenly rearrange itself.
The Destop Folder Settings-Plasma
has Icon sorting as manual, but clearly it is not listening to this.
On Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:43:40 -0500, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
Mageia 9. The destop icons keep rearranging themselves into the
alphabetical order rather than the order I want them in ( which is
roughly grouping into similar use). This happens on reboots on my laptop
(about 5 reboots a day). May times it does not do so, and then it will
sudeenly rearrange itself.
The Destop Folder Settings-Plasma
has Icon sorting as manual, but clearly it is not listening to this.
My best guess is that something is causing plasma to detect a change in desktop size during
boot.
Make sure the plasma desktop size is set to be the same as what X11 is
set to use.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
On Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:43:40 -0500, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
Mageia 9. The destop icons keep rearranging themselves into the
alphabetical order rather than the order I want them in ( which is
roughly grouping into similar use). This happens on reboots on my laptop
(about 5 reboots a day). May times it does not do so, and then it will
sudeenly rearrange itself.
The Destop Folder Settings-Plasma
has Icon sorting as manual, but clearly it is not listening to this.
My best guess is that something is causing plasma to detect a change in desktop size during
boot.
Make sure the plasma desktop size is set to be the same as what X11 is set to use.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
On 2025-03-07, David W. Hodgins <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
On Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:43:40 -0500, William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote: >>
Mageia 9. The destop icons keep rearranging themselves into the
alphabetical order rather than the order I want them in ( which is
roughly grouping into similar use). This happens on reboots on my laptop >>> (about 5 reboots a day). May times it does not do so, and then it will
sudeenly rearrange itself.
The Destop Folder Settings-Plasma
has Icon sorting as manual, but clearly it is not listening to this.
My best guess is that something is causing plasma to detect a change in desktop size during
boot.
Make sure the plasma desktop size is set to be the same as what X11 is set to use.
Regards, Dave Hodgins
Aha, that was probably it. The problem is that I use my machine in
class, and have to have it both on my laptop screen and the projector in
the room. My Dell laptop is 1920x1200 and the projector is 1920x1080, so making
the system fit both decreases the laptop screen to 1920x1080. giving me a black
bar on top and bottom of the computer screen, which I of course do not
want when I am using the laptop, so I change back to 1920x1200
Is there some way of telling the system not to change the ordering of he icons, even though the screen size has changed?
I can se that if the screen goes from 1920x1200 to 600x400 something has
to give, but a 10% change in the vertical really should not.
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