Limiting lowermost position of desktop icons

I use a third-party launch bar which is positioned horizontally along the bottom of the screen. Although it has a transparency feature, one inconvenience is that it obscures the lowermost desktop icons, and I periodically have to move it out of the way to find some icon I'm looking for.
Is there a way to limit the lowermost position of desktop icons so there is a clear space along the bottom of the screen? With my 21 inch monitor set to 1600x1200, I would need about 160 pixels of clear space to accommodate the launch bar without obscuring icons.
Thanks in advance.

That's interesting. On my machine, all newly saved items fall right under the right-hand disk icons, populating down the screen's right-hand side. None go under the Dock, which does have some room on either side of my screen. Been that way since the Jaguar days, but then again, I've never used any view options for the desktop folder. Always found them a nuisance. Sorry I couldn't help. Good luck.

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