I am using xfce 4.8 on Debian unstable. I use GDM as a login manager. My screen resolution in xfce is 1440x900(monitor's native). For some odd reason though, GDM chooses to run in 1024x768 mode. So when I first login into xfce and before the xfce's screen resolution takes effect, xfdesktop moves all my icons to new positions(it crams them all in the right half of the screen). When the screen resolution takes effect xfdesktop resizes to the new resolution but it doesn't restore my icons' positions. This effectively renders the desktop icons unusable. I don't have high hopes for a fix, since xfdesktop is being deprecated...
(In reply to comment #0) > I don't have high hopes for a fix, since xfdesktop is being deprecated... Anyway, sounds like duplicate of bug #6149, another side effect of the xfdesktop's grid resize.
In master: http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=dc4f69b84425cc135c8a70ac04ea3e6ba318d02e http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/commit/?id=d3211fcb34491200bf60d1e38ace87f0ca8ee4c0 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6149 ***