For anyone who might be interested, since in my case this problem is
caused by fractional scaling, in my Ubuntu 20.04 (and then also 20.10)
installation I was able to "automatically fix" it every login by using
this very small program I developed: https://github.com/mind-overflow
/gnome-fs-duplicat
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1873052 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1873052
I don't think there is an official solution to this yet, however, in my
Ubuntu 20.04 (and then also 20.10) installation I was able to
automatically fix it every login by using this very small program I
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