Hi, i need help with issue.
my desktop icons keep rearranging themselves after every time i put it into sleep mode or when i reboot andd they reset themselves.
its getting annoying.
i already tried getting help in other places even kde bugs won’t do a thing.
is there a solution. are third party tools that locks them?
what about commands for terminal?
yes, i checked and it’s on manual.
what else can i do?
Unfortunately probably nothing. This is a known bug that annoyingly manifests in a lot of random ways. We’re planning to rewrite it to be more robust at some point in the future, but obviously that hasn’t happened yet.
gotcha, thanks.
If icons on desktop rearranged when I switch main desktop to second monitor is it the same bug?
Same issue with Task Manager panel widget.
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.1.0
Qt Version: 6.7.0
Graphics Platform: Wayland
I just had the same issue pop up the other day and managed to resolve it.
This might be another flavor of 469445 – ScreenMapping entry in config file can grow infinitely due to lack of auto-removal of stale entries, which makes plasmashell slow down and eventually crash rearing its ugly head.
I’ve had problems with this in the past, though they should have been resolved afaik.
In any case, I checked ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc, the [ScreenMapping] section there had the key screenMapping which had an entry that was about 200k characters long! Just removing the value of the key fixed the issue for me
Stumbled across the same issue (or so I think). Every time my Monitor turns on again either by physically toggeling its power button on/off or by waking it up from sleep mode by moving the mouse I have to reorder all my desktop icons no matter which (ordering) settings I choose.
Locking the Icons also does not prevent this from happening. I can reproduce this 100% of the time, all I have to do is switch the monitor off and on again after placing the icons.
Already tried the potential workaround DeinAlptraum mentioned above but it seems to be unrelated (at least in my case).
Anything I could try/do to workaround this? Or anything that would help tracing the cause of this (if it is not already known)?
Currently running the following setup:
I have this issue with almost the same setup with two laptops…and Asus Laptop using Kubuntu with external monitor and a Dell laptop similarly configured. Everytime I wake the monitor from sleep (no system sleep), the desktop icons are rearranged across the top, left to right. I have manual on and locked icons on.
If the monitor is set to not sleep, just screen locking with wallpaper, icons are ok.
Hi - this actually got some major refactoring work thanks to @akselmo - described here, with a link to the merge request if you’re curious! Desktop icons are surprisingly hard!
This should be landing in Plasma 6.3, which is currently scheduled to be released by KDE in February: Schedules/Plasma 6 - KDE Community Wiki
(Note that your device receiving that update depends on your Linux distribution, so the Kubuntu team would be the best folks to ask about the version of Kubuntu in which they expect Plasma 6.3 to land)
Well that sounds very promising! Thank you.
Especially that “# Stripes and screen resolution” Chapter in the linked Blog Post is exactly what is going on/wrong on my desktop 
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Will give it a try as soon as possible, usually Nobara updates this stuff pretty quickly when it becomes available.
This has just been discussed in depth - there is a bugfix coming through.
I use Manjaro, and mine is actually fixed - as Phil (the Wizard) took time out of his daily tasks to generate and compile some code for one of our users …
But this is a fix that’ll work with Manjaro (you didn’t say what you are using…).
The fix has now been merged upstream and should hit your desktop in a future update over the next couple of months… meanwhile, Neon users will be waiting for Plasma 6.3.
An old bug that has not been fixed to this day and that greatly hinders the lives of more common users.
Hi. I noticed that the problem with reordering icons is reproduced only on AMD GPU. I have two laptops on Intel and two desktops on AMD. On laptops, icons do not rearrange automatically, but on both desktops it does. Perhaps this information will be useful for developers
Leaving this here for future people that stumble across this thread from CachyOS. Although I didn’t have a 200k line entry under screenMapping in the plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file, I did have some old entries in there that I had already previously deleted from the desktop that appeared like they were trying to occupy the same space as the new entries that I had added with gearlever. Just deleting all the entries present was enough to fix this for me.
Problem still exists in KDE Plasma 6.3.4
I use manually sorting.
Icon locking doesn’t help. They move every time the screen is turned off by timeout, even without session lock or reboot.
Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.12.21-4-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 31,2 GiB of RAM
Hi! What you’re describing sounds most specifically like 490891 – The KDE Plasma desktop does not remember manual positioning of desktop icons when a single connected monitor is powered off or the system is restarted - if you’d like, you can add yourself to the CC list in Bugzilla to get email notifications whenever new comments are added, or the status is changed. Making sure the “Add me to CC list” option is checked, then choosing “Save Changes”, will add you:
Just for reference, there is a tracking issue in the KDE Bugtracking System to include various situations folks have found in which desktop icons might spontaneously move from their intended position: 503500 – Metabug: Desktop icons change sorting or positioning without user action
Until recently, I had this problem whenever I turned off my monitor for a while. It seems to have resolved itself after a few updates.
