Desktop Icon Allignment Issues

Ive just performed a system recovery, and a liveupdate, but after the system rebooted after updating, the desktop icons all have a gap in the first position.
Could anyone help me get rid of the gaps, if i drag an icon into the place of the gap, it still doesn move. Its really annoying.

 

Look at XML file at sequence number may be there are some changes... (e.g. first icons sequence is 2)

 

i have same problem

u must edit group-app.xml

and change sequence of icon start at "0"

see pic

 

I have this same problem. I have found the file group-app.xml but whenever I try to edit it I am faced with "Cannot open file to write". Sorry if I'm missing something obvious here but I'm incredibly new to linux.

 

You're probably trying to edit the wrong xml file. One that is located in a system directory owned by root.

You want to edit the one owned by YOU. You'll find it in:

.config/xfce4/desktop

. (dot) files/directories are hidden in Linux, but you can see them using ls -l or with your filemanager with hidden files showing.

To edit the file you want to edit (from a terminal or run in ALT-F2):

mousepad ./config/xfce4/desktop/group-app.xml

You might want to backup the file first:

cd ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/
cp group-app.xml group-app.xml.backup

Then edit it.

Cheers.

 

See...
viewtopic.php?f=48&t=3660

You can copy and paste the original group-app.xml file using the one posted. It should work. Unless you have customized your desktop.
Cheers