Sometimes when I play games that use a resolution different from my normal X display, the windows on my workspace get shifted over toward the upper left. It's an issue that's been happening for a long while and I'm not sure if this is more of a general X issue or something specific to wine. As far back as I remember, it only happens with wine (0.x-0.9, 1.0, 1.1) and I've seen it in different window managers (openbox, sawfish). Anyone experience something similar? Is there any way to stop it?
I know what you mean, the same is happening whenever I set my screen resolution to something low with xrandr or lxrandr. It seems to be a window manager issue and is regarded as a feature; all your icons are rearranged so they're visible on the screen in your current resolution. Kind of annoying, wish they'd add an option in window managers to disable it.