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[James Luscher <jluscher@xxxxxxxxx>]

Update: it appears that the bug may be due to some kind of 'race
condition' between processes during boot.

After a later boot the icons 'popped back' to their 'proper' positions
(twice).  They, apparently, hadn't lost any position information in the
interim, but have since returned to being drawn shifted upwards.

James

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/886667

Title:
  boot moves desktop icons

Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I arrange non-overlapping icons on my desktop for tasks that I am working on or files I want to read later.
  When I boot the next time the bottom 'row' of icons are moved upwards, on top of icons above them, making it difficult to work with them.
  This is a 'polish' bug - reducing the predictable usability of Unity.  I can 'work around it' by moving files/folders off of the desktop but it isn't the way I find 'natural' (for me) to treat a "desktop" - I expect the things on my "desk" will remain where I left them the previous time I was working there ;-)

  James
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  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  Package: nautilus 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Tags:  oneiric running-unity
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (23 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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