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gnome-shell package

desktop icons change positions when switching from Gnome-Shell to Unity

Bug #955676 reported by Britt Yazel
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Bug Description

When switching to and from Unity to Gnome-Shell my desktop Icons like to change position. Usually the icons will switch up and right relative to where they were positioned before. Sometimes, the icons will even end up half way on and off the screen.

On that note, when the icons are set the align to desktop, I do not like the spacing that the icons are set to show as, and the icons only seem to lock horozontially and not vertically. Vertically the icons can be at any spacing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.3.91-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 14 20:26:12 2012
GsettingsChanges:
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '916x556+208+102'
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state sidebar-width 188
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-10 (4 days ago)

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Britt Yazel (bwyazel) wrote :
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Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac) wrote :

Could you please attach a screenshot of the issue?

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Britt Yazel (bwyazel) wrote :
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Britt Yazel (bwyazel) wrote :
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Britt Yazel (bwyazel) wrote :
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Britt Yazel (bwyazel) wrote :

As you can see, the icons shifted 30-40 pixels to the right from the original position after switching to Gnome-Shell. If I were to switch back and forth 3-4 times the icon would be completely off the screen.

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Vadim Rutkovsky (roignac) wrote :

This might be a duplicate of #936958

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status: Incomplete → New
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

No, it's a different issue

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Britt Yazel (bwyazel) wrote :

Well the other issue has to deal with Icons being offset because of the Unity Launcher positioning the effective screen space to the right 48 pixels. When going back to Gnome-Shell there is no longer this offset so all of the icons move over, and perhaps a glitch happens when logging back into Unity to where they shift to the right more than their relative starting points.

Omer Akram (om26er)
no longer affects: unity (Ubuntu)
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

similar bugs have been reported saying it started with the new gnome-shell so reassigning there

affects: nautilus (Ubuntu) → gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 12.04 (precise) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for gnome-shell (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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