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Bug 89124 - Desktop icons on top of each other when login
Desktop icons on top of each other when login
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Desktop
0.x.x [obsolete]
Other Solaris
: High major
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 89382 90556 91045 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-07-26 09:53 UTC by Shane O'Connor
Modified: 2009-08-15 18:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Shane O'Connor 2002-07-26 09:53:47 UTC 
When I log out and log back in again (after saving session) the desktop
icons (displayed by nautilus) are all on top of each other. 

This is solved by selecting "Clean up by name" from right-click popup menu.
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2002-07-30 02:12:30 UTC 
Can you actually reliably duplicate this, Shane? there are quite a few
reports, but we can't actually duplicate it here in the office to fix
it. I've seen it once, but not on purpose, and of course no one was
tracking it so we have no idea how it happened.
Comment 2 Luis Villa 2002-07-30 02:16:08 UTC 
*** Bug 89382 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Shane O'Connor 2002-07-30 15:41:59 UTC 
Can I duplicate it? Yes

Can I reliably duplicate it? No.... :)

More info later.
Comment 4 Anand 2002-08-01 08:42:02 UTC 
Okay. I see this. I saw it when nautilus crashed once and then came 
up again.

To reproduce, do 'pkill nautilus' and when nautilus comes up, the 
desktop icons are on top of each other. (30th July sources from Head)
Comment 5 Luis Villa 2002-08-01 15:14:22 UTC 
Hrm. That doesn't do it here, anand :/ I wish it did.
Comment 6 Shane O'Connor 2002-08-02 10:07:59 UTC 
I tried pkill nautilus and saw the same as anand - desktop icons are
displayed on top of each other when nautilus restarts :(
Comment 7 Luis Villa 2002-08-06 23:59:58 UTC 
Dave, can you repro this?
Comment 8 Dave Camp 2002-08-07 00:16:21 UTC 
I see it every once in awhile, but I can't reproduce it at will.
Comment 9 Luis Villa 2002-08-07 15:49:32 UTC 
Dave: I meant, can you repro on the sun boxes with pkill?
Comment 10 aaron 2002-08-08 18:47:56 UTC 
This happens to me every time I log in.
Comment 11 Dave Camp 2002-08-09 19:54:34 UTC 
luis: I can't reproduce it on the sun box either.

I'm pretty sure it hasn't been fixed, but I can't reproduce it well at
all anymore.
Comment 12 Luis Villa 2002-08-15 00:06:17 UTC 
*** Bug 90556 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Alexander Larsson 2002-08-15 14:06:36 UTC 
Trying to track this one down.
It happens in nautilus-icon-container.c::icon_set_position()

if (nautilus_icon_container_get_is_fixed_size (container)) {
    get widget allocation
    limit position inside allocation
}
place canvas item

There is some sort of race going on so that sometimes when this code
runs the allocation is 50x50
Comment 14 Alexander Larsson 2002-08-15 15:05:59 UTC 
Fixed (by way of ugly workaround) in CVS.
Comment 15 Luis Villa 2002-08-20 03:03:53 UTC 
*** Bug 91045 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Shane O'Connor 2002-08-22 09:28:34 UTC 
verified as fixed in CVS 22nd August
Comment 17 Shane O'Connor 2002-08-22 09:28:56 UTC 
closing