Desktop icons are places outside visible area on a dual monitor system.

[Maxim]

Some of the desktop icons are placed outside of the visible area. It seems as if the actual desktop area is greater than what is displayed by the screen.

I have a dual monitor setup. The primary screen is connected to the VGA port of my laptop. The laptop's screen is configured as secondary and is placed on the left.

The native resolution of both screens is 1920x1080. However, since the built in screen of my laptop is small, it is set to 1360x768. The primary screen is set to its native resolution.

If I sort the icons by name, the are moved to the secondary screen with the lower resolution and some of the icons are out of the visible range so I cannot access them.

If I change the resolution of the secondary screen to its native resolution, I do find the icons in the top corner of the desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-50.67~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt16
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-50-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.15
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Nov 2 14:59:16 2015
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: trusty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DpkgLog:

ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0a16] (rev 0b) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:220c]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-02-25 (249 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
MachineType: LENOVO 20ARS1NW00
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-50-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=6d760634-ce0e-46e1-aa6f-ec5438dfbf34 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 01/09/2015
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: GJET82WW (2.32 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 20ARS1NW00
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: SDK0E50512 STD
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrGJET82WW(2.32):bd01/09/2015:svnLENOVO:pn20ARS1NW00:pvrThinkPadT440s:rvnLENOVO:rn20ARS1NW00:rvrSDK0E50512STD:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 20ARS1NW00
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T440s
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.11.3+14.04.20150313-0ubuntu1
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.60-2~ubuntu14.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core N/A
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau N/A
xserver.bootTime: Mon Nov 2 14:42:39 2015
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:
 product id 2093
 vendor SAM
xserver.version: 2:1.16.0-1ubuntu1.2~trusty2

[Maxim (max-pla3)]

There is actually already a bug report on this.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/360970

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Maxim, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

As per http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-t-series-laptops/thinkpad-t440s an update to your computer's buggy and outdated BIOS is available (2.35). If you update to this following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BIOSUpdate does it change anything?

If it doesn't, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

For more on BIOS updates and linux, please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#Bug_reporting_etiquette .

Please note your current BIOS is already in the Bug Description, so posting this on the old BIOS would not be helpful. As well, you don't have to create a new bug report.

Once the BIOS is updated, if the problem is still reproducible, and the information above is provided, then please mark this report Status New. Otherwise, please mark this as Invalid.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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