18.3 Cinnamon 64bit nemo moves icons bug

[SilverFox66]

Oh, I didnt know there were 2 different bugs. My issue is like the others mentioned.... system icons (Trash/Computer/Network etc...) move when logging in/refreshing/reboot. I will add that while I was able to un-tick "use-desktop-grid" as suggested earlier in the thread, but cannot change the value of "vertical-grid-adjust" from 1.0 to .5. The option to change the value is simply not there like other settings, as shown in the screen shot.

[kybos]

I experienced a similar issue on Mint 19 Cinnamon yesterday.
After a reboot, the Computer and Home icons that had been on the top of my desktop were suddenly several grid rows lower, conflicting with other two icons in the same place. On moving them I noticed that they were even not exactly on the same grid compared to the remaining icons.
I don't use Auto-arrange, only Align-to-grid. Icon size was Normal.

[SilverFox66]

Evidently they didnt deem this bug important enough, to fix it. A year later, and people are still having issues with it.

[smurphos]

Well they did fix it...in the next release. The whole thing has been revamped again for 19.1 possibly with new bugs....

[SilverFox66]

Well they did fix it...in the next release. The whole thing has been revamped again for 19.1 possibly with new bugs....

Evidently, they didnt.....

I experienced a similar issue on Mint 19 Cinnamon yesterday.
After a reboot, the Computer and Home icons that had been on the top of my desktop were suddenly several grid rows lower, conflicting with other two icons in the same place. On moving them I noticed that they were even not exactly on the same grid compared to the remaining icons.
I don't use Auto-arrange, only Align-to-grid. Icon size was Normal.

And even if it was fixed in 19.1, that does nothing for those of us who encountered the issue upgrading to 18.3, or 19

[smurphos]

Unfortunately that's just the way the Mint dev cycle rolls. Show-stopping bugs may get fixed in older releases, but 'niggles' like this tend to get fixed for the next release. In this particular case I imagine it's something fairly fundamental to the grid system that is the underlying issue, or possibly a bug in an upstream component that Nemo relies on so not necessarily something trivial to back-port assuming it does get fixed in a later release.

I wasn't able to reproduce the bugs reported in 19 although I was on 18.3 so whilst there may still be some edge cases I think it was improved in 19 compared to 18.3.

[SilverFox66]

Doesnt do much for my faith in Linux. So much for "support" till 2021.

[kybos]

I experienced a similar issue on Mint 19 Cinnamon yesterday.
After a reboot, the Computer and Home icons that had been on the top of my desktop were suddenly several grid rows lower, conflicting with other two icons in the same place. On moving them I noticed that they were even not exactly on the same grid compared to the remaining icons.
I don't use Auto-arrange, only Align-to-grid. Icon size was Normal.

I am on Mint 19.1 in the meantime and this issue is still not solved.
When adding a new icon to the desktop (or when it's added automatically for an USB drive etc.), it's always put over an existing icon.