A friend of mine experienced it for quite some time and solved it by setting the position of the window I think in the file /usr/share/totem/totem.glade.
-- [Live CD Dapper Drake/Flight 6] Totem resizes window after start out of screen https://launchpad.net/bugs/37706 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
