How to lock icon position on desktop

I would like to arrange the icons on my desktop in a particular way and always lock them into that position. Is there a way to do that in the OS, or is there a third party plug in that could do that? Thanks.

I agree that the icon arrangement ought to persist through a reboot; AFAIK the Finder is supposed to save that information before shutting down.
Just a shot in the dark: is there a .DS_Store file on the Desktop? (It would be invisible, so you’d need to use Terminal or a third-party utility to look for it.) If you find one, delete it. Another possibility is a damaged preference file. Have you verified the disk & its access permissions with Disk Utility?

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Yamaeda wrote:
Run it in highlight mode, done.
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https://lavag.org/topic/16660-how-to-get-actual-vi-execution-state/
https://decibel.ni.com/content/thread/18687
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Total
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line-data1 line-data2
Total
page3
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Total
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