MATE desktop - icon arrangement - order out of chaos - HOW?
From Richard Owlett@rowlett@access.net to alt.os.linux.debian on Fri Mar 14 10:50:32 2025
From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.debian
I'm running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 [Caja file manager]
I've been running MATE since it was released as alternative to Gnome3.
Over time /home/richard/Desktop has had many additions and deletions.
The combination of that with manually manually arranging icons related
to a current project resulted in *CHAOS* ;/!
Recently it was particularly bad.
I right-clicked on its background an (re?)discovered "Organize Desktop
by Name". The result was generally pleasing.
I liked:
1. the row and column spacing.
Is there some way that when manually rearranging icons they be
forced to the same grid? {i.e. icons forced to not overlap}
2. file folders appearing first. Alphabetical order is logical
default.
Arranging individual files alphabetically is a reasonable default.
On my machine, would it possible to arrange them by extension &/or
creation date?