Icons stuck in place on desktop

All of a sudden I've found the icons on my desktop to be stuck in place. I can open each file, but I can't click and drag it around. Please advise on how to get them unstuck. Thanks.

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HIDDEN CUSTOMISATIONS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you're using the icon view, and would like to change how the text looks,
you have three things you can change: the opacity (transparency) of the
rounded text background, the color of the rounded text background, and the
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style "xfdesktop-icon-view" {
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