Comment 4 for bug 360970

I think I can clarify. I am also having this issue on Jaunty, however I will note that I am using nvidia as my driver, and therefore twinview. This means that this could be "valid" behavior by nautilus, given that twinview (I assume) emulates one big monitor, however since it looks like Compiz/Metacity are correctly applying edge-snapping rules and window spawning locations, it may not be.

Effectively, if one has two screens that are not the same size, the additional area of the virtual screen that is not displayed by the physical monitors is still reachable with pointing devices, and nautilus still allows icons to appear there.

This is only a minor problem unless the Primary monitor's top edge is "below" the secondary's top edge. This configuration creates an area above the primary monitor where icons of files saved to $HOME/Desktop are likely to appear, even though they cannot be seen.

I am not certain this bug is classified correctly, however. I think more than likely it should be applied to Nautilus, and could probably even be listed as just a feature request if it only effects proprietary driver users.

If anyone can confirm this happens on non-ATI or NVidia proprietary drivers, i think that will help more.