I'm using Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS. There are a lot carefully aligned icons on my desktop. Something like shown below:
I can't find icon positions attributes in dconf / gsettings.
How can I backup their current positions to restore them later? Where such a file is located?
Quick greping in home folder gives the following file name with needed information:
~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home
It is special file to be operated by gio info or gio set.
Every icon has its own metadata attribute. So one can:
read it by
gio info -a "metadata::caja-icon-position" ~/Desktop/file1.txt
to get something like
attributes:
metadata::caja-icon-position: 922,382
where 922 and 382 are horizontal and vertical pixel positions for file1.txt icon.
write it by
gio set -t string ~/Desktop/file1.txt metadata::caja-icon-position 300,400
to move file1.txt icon to the location specified by 300 and 400 coordinates in pixels.
Then one needs to ask Caja to refresh the desktop by calling caja -q.
