Bug 512488

Summary: Desktop icon positions resetting every login [Weird monitor configuration-specific?]
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: kmdest <findanotherplace>
Component: Desktop icons & Folder View widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: hein
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.5.3   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description kmdest 2025-11-22 20:13:47 UTC
SUMMARY
Plasmashell's desktop icon positions reset every time I log in. I created a new user to try and rule out settings faults, and it happens to that user too.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Log out
2. Log in

OBSERVED RESULT
Desktop icons not at their saved positions, instead resetting to my second non-primary monitor, filling from the top-left like words in a book

EXPECTED RESULT
Saved positions that I manually set

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.8-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7C56
System Version: 2.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I have an unusual monitor configuration for a lot of reasons. It looks like this:
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(I apologize in advance to email onlookers, hopefully it illustrates that my non-primary second monitor is placed on the bottom-left of the primary monitor, touching only on the very corner edge.)
Comment 1 kmdest 2025-11-22 20:19:37 UTC
Update: it manages to save positions on the second monitor, but if i place an icon on my first monitor, it starts doing the reset again, to the state it was in before I moved that icon to the primary monitor.
Comment 2 kmdest 2025-11-23 00:58:57 UTC
Duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512381, closing

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 512381 ***