Where does caja store the screen location of files?

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Caja, the file manager for the MATE desktop

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Where does caja store the screen location of files? #1631

Closed stefan-reich closed 2 years ago

stefan-reich commented 2 years ago

I'd like to move file icons on the desktop programmatically. Is there a file I can write to?

lukefromdc commented 2 years ago

Some (mounted volumes etc) get stored as text files in ~/.config/caja/desktop-metadata more references to these same files and possibly others (not sure, no direct way to read them) are in ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata in many files and in a special format

More on this,how it works, and how to edit this from the command line (on an Ubuntu site): https://askubuntu.com/questions/1320316/where-desktop-icon-positions-are-saved-in-mate

stefan-reich commented 2 years ago

Thank you!