About Desktop icons auto-arranging since last update

[rmduran29]

Desktop icons auto-arranging since last update

Since the last major update a few days ago my desktop icons are being auto-arranged in a column starting at top left (I can’t see any meaningful order eg date or alphabetical or folders than files). I’ve tried moving icons and logging out then back in and things seem ok but after a reboot the issue recurs. I’ve tried doing a ‘save session’ but the same applies. Searching the web this seems to have been an occasional issue going back years - some of the fixes suggested don’t seem to be applicab…

The same issue from this topic was also happening on all three of my Manjaro PCs, so I had been holding off on updates after the [Stable Update] 2026-05-27 release.
Then [Stable Update] 2026-06-26 came out, and I thought maybe this problem had been fixed, so I tried updating.
It still wasn’t fixed.
After that, I started investigating the cause and found the culprit.
The culprit is libxfce4windowing 4.20.6-1.
Until it gets fixed, I’ll keep using libxfce4windowing 4.20.5-3.
With libxfce4windowing 4.20.5-3, this problem does not occur, whether I reboot or turn off the display.
It looks like XFCE is already aware of this issue, so it should be fixed soon (probably).

X11 fallback monitor causes app confusion during DPMS (and other?) wakeups...

It seems to occur with combinations of certain displays and HDMI or DisplayPort.
In my case, it occurs with the combination of Dell AW2725DF, AW2521H and HDMI or DisplayPort,
This problem does not occur with ASUS or Mitsubishi displays.

[steanne]

yep, pointed out back in may

[Testing Update] 2026-05-29 - Systemd, COSMIC, NVIDIA, Firefox, Pipewire, VLC

after this update, going from this machine to another and back via kvm switch dumps all my desktop icons onto the left of the screen. downgrading libxfce4windowing to 4.20.5-3 fixes it after one last reposition, for now.