How to align desktop icons to the right in gnome

How do i get the icons to auto align to the right of the desktop?? And i know i could just manually put them there, but that is not a solution but more a workaround. Thanks in advanced.
-Dan

thanks for the response. As i said i know i can move them from the left to the right manually. But im saying when i new icon is created it defualts to the left, i want to change that. I want my icons to neatly arrange themeselves to the right when i choose align by name. Hmmmm.... From reading online it seams impossible.... to bad though......
Thanks again for the help
-Dan

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