Comment 19 for bug 886667

This is not a duplicate of bug #737758.
That bug describes how the whole desktop icon container moves horizontally due to an inconsistent handling of the unity launcher width.

This bug brings up another issue, i.e when the desktop icon container width and/or height sizes are defined smaller than the correct sizes. Greater sizes however will work correctly as icon locations are pixeloriented.

The specific issue here is that the desktop icon container height is defined smaller than the correct size which then causes vertical compression moving any icons located below the container (workarea) upwards.

The bug is that X window properties are not properly initialized for the Unity session but inherits old X settings from XGetWindowProperty, here top.height=300, which indicates a panel height of 300 pixels thus reducing the icon container height accordingly causing compression and overlapping of desktop icons.

So, undupping this one from #737758.