Gnome 3.6 - Desktop Icons on Secondary TwinView Screen?

Hi,
I have dual monitors using Nvidia twinview and in previous Gnome iterations nothing has prevented 'free dragging' of desktop icons to anywhere, on any screen. However in 3.6.2 they seem to be locked to the primary monitor only. Does anyone know if this is configurable, a bug, or yet further reduced usability?
Many thanks

wilson wrote:I had to remove .config/dconf/user twice to get rid of the black text. The first time, after reststarting with Alt-F2 'r', the desktop was mostly reset, but the icons were all still there, and running gnome-tweak-tool "Have file manager manage the desktop" was set to False, and setting it to True did nothing. I removed the file again, logged out, then logged in, and then the icon's were gone, and setting "Have file manager manage the desktop" properly put white text under the icons.
Very interesting. I did all that you suggested - and in the end - the icon text was still black. However - I got to playing around and discovered the source of the problem.
It is the GTK+ Theme. If it is set to any GTK+ theme other than the default 'Adwaita' - the icon text is always black. However, it works correctly - white - with Adwaita.
So - I surmise that something changed in how Gnome 3.2 uses GTK+ - or something in GTK+ itself. Perhaps Wonder may have some perspective on this ... I hope.
--Theoden

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