Comment 12 for bug 886667

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.