Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon - Panel buttons keep changing order

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Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon - Panel buttons keep changing order

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Hello, I have Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon installed. The open applications/software buttons on the panel keep automatically changing order (it looks like to reverse alphabetical order). Is there a way to stop them changing order and keep them in the order I set (when I drag the buttons)? Thanks a lot in advance!
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With the app closed, right click the icon>preferences>configure>panel tab. Turn off enable app button dragging. I use the setting in the same window to show application name.
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LanceM wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:19 pm With the app closed, right click the icon>preferences>configure>panel tab. Turn off enable app button dragging. I use the setting in the same window to show application name. 1.jpg
Thanks. Yes, this will stop them re-ordering themselves. But instead they will be locked into the order they already re-order themselves to. I won't be able to order the buttons at all myself. It's not really a solution to my problem I'm afraid. I want to be able to drag them into any order, like I could with all the previous versions of Linux Mint.
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Drag them to how you want them and then lock them.
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Re: Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon - Panel buttons keep changing order

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LanceM wrote: Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:45 pm Drag them to how you want them and then lock them.
It doesn't matter where you drag them first. As soon as you lock them, they change order and auto-sort again.
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Mine don't except open ones move to the right, but go back when closed. Closed stay put. Doesn't bother me at all.
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Re: Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon - Panel buttons keep changing order

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This is a known bug that has been reported on Github many times. Hopefully it will be fixed at some point. If you know a little bit of Javascript you might wanna go over there and try your hand at it. It might be a really easy fix, you never know!
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues
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spamegg wrote: Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:21 am This is a known bug that has been reported on Github many times. Hopefully it will be fixed at some point. If you know a little bit of Javascript you might wanna go over there and try your hand at it. It might be a really easy fix, you never know!
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues
Thanks. I didn't know it was already a known bug. I guess I'll have to wait for the update that fixes it. I'm not really a power user, and I don't know much Javascript so I'm afraid I wouldn't be much help there.
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spamegg wrote: Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:21 am This is a known bug that has been reported on Github many times.
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues
Can anyone link me to the issue(s) on github? I can't find any open issues searching variations of "panel buttons" or "panel icons" etc.
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Can anyone link me to the issue(s) on github?
Try this:
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/10119
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