I think this should be considered a nautilus bug first since gnome-shell itself does not draw desktop icons.
By the way, I don't believe the Ubuntu Desktop team has discussed yet whether to show desktop icons by default in 17.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1696621 Title: Desktop icons slip under the top bar after logging in again To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1696621/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs