move icons on Desktop (custom placement)

[peter_3]

Hello everybody!
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I have a problem with the icons on the Desktop in Lubuntu (10.04). They are all aligned automatically, but I want to place them wherever I want on desktop. How can I do that? Is there an option that I missed?

[TwelveGauge]

well, you can drag them to where you want and then click right click the desktop
view -> align to grid
they'll stay where you want.

Whether or not they'll stay after you end your session I'm not sure...i don't have anything ON my desktop other than a terminal icon. =/

[peter_3]

well, you can drag them to where you want and then click right click the desktop
view -> align to grid
they'll stay where you want.

Whether or not they'll stay after you end your session I'm not sure...i don't have anything ON my desktop other than a terminal icon. =/

This is the problem, that I cannot drag them wherever I want, they just go back. And I don't have the option "View -> Align to grid" in the right-click menu. I have Linux Lubuntu (LXDE Ubuntu). I just don't have such commands in the right-click menu; probably Gnome has.

[peter_3]

Does anyone know this problem? Is an LXDE charcateristic?

[ymra]

Try Right clicking on the desktop icons themselves. There are some options related to alignment there. It seems like you have to deal with each icon by itself though.