The nautilus desktop support got removed in disco/nautilus 3.30 which deprecate this issue (there is a new component providing the desktop view now gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons but that doesn't have the grid option)
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1809635 Title: nautilus-desktop icons rearrange themselves upon relogin gnome Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: This bug occurred on a previous installation of Ubuntu that was also Cosmic gnome. That one was used for years and was originally 16.04. I reinstalled Ubuntu and the bug still occurs. This happens regardless of whether "keep aligned" is checked. Description: Ubuntu 18.10 Release: 18.10 nautilus: Installed: 1:3.26.4-0ubuntu7 Candidate: 1:3.26.4-0ubuntu7 Version table: *** 1:3.26.4-0ubuntu7 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status I expected my icons to remain in the same place upon login or relogin or unlock. What instead happened is that my icons were rearranged, apparently to the leftmost part of the desktop, top to bottom. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: nautilus 1:3.26.4-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-13.14-generic 4.18.17 Uname: Linux 4.18.0-13-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Dec 24 11:31:20 2018 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.preferences' b'executable-text-activation' b"'ask'" b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'sidebar-width' b'186' b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'geometry' b"'890x550+1009+207'" b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true' b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where', 'date_modified', 'date_modified_with_time', 'date_accessed', 'recency']" InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-22 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) mtime.conffile..etc.xdg.autostart.nautilus-autostart.desktop: 2018-12-22T15:29:56.767849 usr_lib_nautilus: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1809635/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp