Keeping the damn icons in place!

[XDelusion]

Ok, here is a question that I've never been able to figure out on my own ironically, I thought it was just a bug in Amiga OS, but I am on 3.9 now and it still happens.

I'll move my desktop icons where I want them, will snap shot the desktop, and when I re-boot the icons go back to where they were.

Also I'll try to clean up a window such as my Prefs drawer, I snapshot it, reboot, and though everything is pretty much in place, there are always those few icons that just HAVE to sip about.

How do I fix this?!!??!

[Damion]

Try to "unsnapshot" first, then "snapshot", that
seems to do it sometimes...also remember only
"real" icons will snapshot.

[Framiga]

Hi XDelusion

if you wish to snapshot an icon on WB, you must:

1- Select the icon (or more with multiselect)

2- Choose from the menu Icons/snapshot  

If you want to snapshot ALL the icons inside a window, you must:

1- Select the window

2- Choose from the menu Window/Snapshot/All

Ciao

[XDelusion]

So it is Amiga OS then! GIMPY!!! :/

[carls]

If your icons are placed so that the OS thinks they won't "fit" in the window (I think it's calculated based on the icon font size) they will start floating around no matter how much you snapshot them. There should always be a few pixels of extra space around an icon for it to stay in place.

Personally I prefer to do a "clean up" (ramiga-.) to see if the icons will fit in a window, then snapshot them.

[XDelusion]

Ok got it, that un-snapshot thing did the trick this time!

Thankx a lot!!!

[lionstorm]

Bear in mind that any new disk icons (CD, D7) will be placed on the top left by default and interfere with your already present icons disk so It is better to put your dh0 etc on the top right.
By default as well, the ram icon is on the top left, even if you put it somewhere else and snapshot. Next reset and it will be again on top left. There are tools available to change that. Just browse aminet or amigaos3.9 faq.
Lio