As stated above there is a bug report Bug #1875695 which is a duplicate and for which I apologize. The problem appeared after an update from 10.04 LTS GNOME to 20.04 LTS.
Any additional details that I could add are of course available. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1875695 Title: Unable to place icons on desktop in user-defined order, use vertical column instead To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-flashback/+bug/1875695/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs