Desktop icons suddenly shifted to left side

[David M. Karr]

Frank McCormick wrote:
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> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:47:51 -0700
> "David M. Karr" <davidmichaelkarr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've been accumulating desktop icons for a while, arranging them in 
>> precise locations on my desktop.  This has worked fine for quite a 
>> while, but just this morning something happened at some point (I
>> didn't see it happen) that made all the icons "smoosh" over to the
>> left, leaving about the right third of the screen uncovered by
>> icons.  Several of them were also moved vertically, but to a large
>> extent they were all just moved to the left.  Now they are all
>> neatly arranged in rows and columns (not the way I wanted them),
>> although oddly the position in the very top left corner is empty.
>>
>> Any ideas what might cause this?
> 
>   Did you accidentally right click on the desktop and click on "keep
> aligned"...that would do it. If you did unselect it and start moving
> the icons back to where you want them.

I see now that that's selected, but I'm sure I didn't turn it on.  I've 
never had any reason to right-click on the desktop, so I would have had 
to accidentally right-click on the desktop, and then accidentally select 
that option, all without noticing.  Not very likely.