Zorin OS 17.3 lite: thunar empty date modified column and moving icons on desktop

Hi,
since a while I have two problems with Zorin OS 17.3 lite. In particular, on thunar the date modified and date created columns are empty. I am not sure if I did something wrong, but I do not think so.
Moreover, the desktop icons keep moving among various reboots.
Thank you

"When in Detailed List mode, you have the option of configuring which columns are visible by selecting ViewConfigure Columns... from the main menu. Alternatively you can just right-click on any column head.

Visible Columns
Select the columns you want to be displayed from the list of available columns."

from:

Edit: This probably doesn't help you as the columns headers are shown. When they are disabled they don't appear in the titlebar.

Is this on your primary drive or on external ones i.e., USB, network shares, etc?

This is unfortunately a known issue, although this is the first I hear about it affecting Zorin OS Lite... You can try this temporary workaround and see if it helps; I'm curious to see if it would actually do anything since this should be for Zorin OS Core only.

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It would not - Gnome lacks many features which are added (or re-added back in) using extensions.
XFCE, Mate, Cinnamon etc do not have that feature reduction, therefor do not need or use extensions.

@alfio, are you using more than one monitor?

Do you have "automatically arrange icons" enabled?

What is your terminal output of:

echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

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I thought that since XFCE uses things like gsettings, similar to Gnome, maybe the extension system was also that could be added. A long shot, but always worth trying... This is indeed the first time I've heard of or seen something like this happening on XFCE.

Same - and looking into it; it is Very Rare...