Xubuntu 18.04.2-32bit with Compiz - How to save position of desktop icons, please?
 

I hope I'm in the proper board for a Xubuntu question...

When I'm running the ordinary xfwm4 desktop, the positions of the desktop icons are ok.
They are all where I want them to be.

But when I boot to Xubuntu using Compiz, all desktop icons are sorted differently.

How can I prevent that from happening, please?

xfdesktop is responsible for desktop icons on xfce.
i don't see how a change from compiz to xfwm could affect this.
maybe there's a difference in how these two options are started?

The positions don't change, when I boot Xubuntu into xfwm4.

They stay in their wanted positions when I switch between xfwm4 and Compiz (and back again), using these commands within the terminal:

But I've edited the following file:
I changed the line...
...into this...
So, I can boot directly into Compiz, but then, the position of the desktop icons is different, and I don't know, why?

it's a long time i maintained an XFCE desktop, let's see my Xubuntu VM...

the xfce4-session.xml in your hoe is mostly empty; you need to look at the dfined values in /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml
- that looks a little different, you need to define more i guess.
you can also use the "Settings Editor" for this. Probably safer.

Unfortunately, I cannot find any information on the web on how to save a desktop layout in the same way than it looks like in xfwm4.

Each time I boot into Compiz, the icons look like I had used the rearrange option of the context menu of the desktop.

this has nothing to do with what i suggested in my last post.
did you take a good look at the files & software mentioned? compare it to the output you posted?

Now, I've got another problem.

After

or when I boot in the ordinary xfwm4, I have only one of four workspaces left.

When I right-click that workspace in the taskbar and go to Settings, I see the number 1, but I cannot change that, because the up and down buttons are grayed out.

To be able to change that number I have to go to workspace settings in the same window, and enter a 4, but after the next reboot, that number is reset to 1 again.

As for the misplaced icons:
The only way I could think of, is to copy

to

but I cannot identify the line or lines to be edited and I don't know how to do it, i.e. what to enter as new commands.

EDIT:
Please ignore the 2nd problem about the missing workspaces.
Meanwhile, I was able to fix it by restoring that bar by means of Settings -> xfce-Panel-switch.

Meanwhile I decided to use the following method:
With this command...
...I removed the writing privileges of the according icons file
and added the following script to my autostart:
That way, the icons are rearranged 20 seconds after booting, which, on my little netbook, is the perfect delay to have them rearranged right before I see them on my compiz desktop.

On my ordinary xfwm4 desktop they are rearranged a few seconds too late, but I don't care, because in that case they are already where I want them to be and therefore don't move anyway.