Bug 389705

Summary: Desktop icon layout changes on boot
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: richfmail <richfmail>
Component: FolderAssignee: Eike Hein <hein>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: mo78, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.11.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description richfmail 2018-01-31 17:13:57 UTC
I've installed KDE Plasma on Arch Linux. It is a fresh install. Here's my system info:
SYSTEM INFO
Plasma Version: 5.11.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.42.0
Qt Version: 5.10.0
Kernel version: 4.14.14-1-Arch
Processor: i5 6200U
RAM: 8GB
Display Manager: SDDM
The Problem: 
My desktop icon layout gets changed on every boot. The problem only occurs when I restart(or shutdown+start) my system, I mean restarting plasma-shell or logging in and out does not cause any problem.
On further research, I found that the file .config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc gets modified, **only the positions= line is changed.**
Currently, I use this script on startup:
cp .config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc{.bak,}
kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-01-22 16:27:32 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 354802 ***
Comment 2 Nick Stefanov 2020-01-30 11:32:02 UTC
@richfmail
Thank you for this workaround it works perfect!