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[Bowmore <886667@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I experience this issue  too in Precise.

After an upgrade of Oneiric on 2011-12-21 (previous upgrade: 2011-12-05)
I also see this behaviour in Oneiric. However, not sure that this
upgrade introduced the issue in Oneiric as it's sporadic and I mainly
run Precise.

It seems that a wrong screen resolution is handed over to Nautilus and
as James indicates this might very well be a race condition issue as
it's sporadic. A workaround (tested in Oneiric so far) is to log out and
in again, so desktop icon positions all are intact.

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Title:
  boot moves desktop icons

Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I arrange non-overlapping icons on my desktop for tasks that I am working on or files I want to read later.
  When I boot the next time the bottom 'row' of icons are moved upwards, on top of icons above them, making it difficult to work with them.
  This is a 'polish' bug - reducing the predictable usability of Unity.  I can 'work around it' by moving files/folders off of the desktop but it isn't the way I find 'natural' (for me) to treat a "desktop" - I expect the things on my "desk" will remain where I left them the previous time I was working there ;-)

  James
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  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  Package: nautilus 1:3.2.1-0ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Tags:  oneiric running-unity
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (23 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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