Desktop items moving randomly around

Whenever I interchange my macbook pro with retina from using an external thunderbolt display or not, sometimes my desktop sticky notes will move randomly around the screen. I have them all nicely placed beside each other up in the top left corner, but when I plug my mac into my external display, then get all spaced out and move to random locations around the screen. When I unplug my mac from my display, and go on its own display, the stickies once again move around. They become all bunched together and it looks so messy. Its annoying to always have to move them back to their places so I can actually read what I have written there. Just wondering if theres a fix.

One of the things you can try working with is in System Preferences > Displays check the box Show mirroring options on the menu bar. Then try things like Match Desktop Size and see if that will maintain the configuration for your setup. That does alter the magnification, though, since the monitor and Mac will not be the same resolution in most cases.

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