Desktop icons keep jumping to the right

Okay, suddenly all my desktop items jumped to the right of the desktop, and I can't put them back to - for example - topleft.
It happened after I imported a CD into iTunes (a Beatles album, the irony). I wanted to access the CD to watch the documentary, but the CD did not show up in the Finder. I also could not select any icon on my desktop, could not dubble click the icon for my harddrive for example. So I went to File > New Finder-window and opened the CD from within that window. I watched the documentary and then I wanted to copy it to my desktop. As soon as I dragged the .mov file to my desktop, all icons jumped to the right.
What's up with that? Thanks!

nvm
I need to learn to restart my Mac before making such posts... Still strange that happened, though...

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