Comment 5 for bug 57784

A related issue, captured in bug #408710, is that Nautilus places icons in "dead space", the unreachable part of the desktop adjacent to the smaller of two different sized monitors used simultaneously. This is still a very common use-case for laptop users.

The issue was mentioned in this blog over a year ago, but it seems no progress has been made: http://blogs.gnome.org/cneumair/2008/09/19/nautilus-multihead-desaster/