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  • 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?

    TIA

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