GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 153269
Does not correctly remember the position
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I usually have one sticky note near the upper-right corner of my 1280x1024 desktop. Gnome 2.4 and 2.6 always remembered its position. In Gnome 2.8, after a logout-reboot-login this sticky note sometimes appears near the upper-left corner and then quickly jumps to the right place (the upper-right corner), but often it remains at its initial upper-left position, hiding a nautilus desktop icon, forgeting its old position, which is clearly not what I want.
Confirmed. Using GNOME 2.8 built with GARNOME, I can reproduce the problem. As reporter says, this was not occuring on 2.6. I have the same resolution : 1280x1024. The problem occurs everytime for all notes I have on my desktop i.e. they all appear stacked on top of each other in top left desktop corner when I log in. The "Save settings" option on logout does not change anything. GNOME/GARNOME is is installed in home directory.
"Workarounded" by deleting all gnome-related directories in my account along with /tmp stuff (orbit, etc). The problem seems to arise because the sticky-notes applet does not properly exit when session is closed (I see a dialog box that is not completely drawn and session then exits). I remember having the same problem before with another applet, the dialog saying the applet had to be restarted). Note that it is very recurrent for GNOME config files to be corrupted/incompatible between version of GNOME. This time they were those of GNOME 2.2 (that ships with Redhat EL 3).
You say the sticky note does not correctly exit. Is it related to #121782?
Indeed. Comments posted on your original bug #121782.
Marking this bug as a duplicate so that all the bug activity happens in one place. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121782 ***