I have seen this topic addressed before now and then, but never found a solution. I thought I would try again.

I am running SuSE 9.3 and KDE (the standard 3.4 KDE that comes with SuSE 9.3). After every restart, all of my desktop icons which are along the right edge of the screen loose the position that I placed them in, and end up bunched up along the left edge of the screen. Somehow, KDE is loosing or corrupting desktop information over a restart. When I first installed SuSE 9.3, this happened now and then - now it happens EVERY time.

Well, there is one exception. I dual boot Windows XP on the same machine (I unfortunately have to keep it around for Adobe Photoshop and for Apple iTunes). If I reboot from SuSE to Windows, and then use Windows to turn the machine off, when SuSE boots again, my desktop icons are ALWAYS in the right place! I have no idea what the connection is, but the behaviour is extremely consistent.

Does anyone have a solution for the issue of KDE loosing desktop icon position settings? Alternately, does anyone know where this information is kept? Perhaps I can manually save it off before shutting KDE down, and restore it before starting it back up again - a bit of init script messing about might do the trick.

I have tried all the obvious cures. I have already disabled KDE's "auto arrange icons" setting, and its "align icons to grid" setting. The only thing I can think of that might be still effecting this is something to do with a buggy attempt to restore the last session. I know that there is a way to disable that, but for the life of me, I can't remember where that setting is, or find it. Does anyone know where that is?

Thanks in advance. This is a vexing problem.

Sorry, I can't help you with your icon problem, but here's how to enable/disable saving the session (never used SUSE 9.3, but I'm sure it's the same):

1. Open your KDE control center.
2. Click on "KDE Components"
3. Click on "Session Manager"
4. In section "On Login", you can allow it to either Restore a Previous Session, Restore Manually Saved Session, or Start With An Empty Session. According to your post, you'd want to start with an empty session.

This should do what you're looking for.

Baltika

Thanks! That's what I was looking for!