Upon startup, the desktop is black for about a second and then the background and the rest of the desktop seems to expand from the upper left corner to the rest of the screen. Is this expected behavior? I don’t recall seeing it before.
Does the behavior occur before the login screen shows or after you logged in?
Did you use the default xfce?
Would you mind testing out to set a way lower desktop resolution and describe if the issue looks the same on a reboot?
It occurs after i log in. I do use the default xfce. What resolution should I try? The starting “box” in the upper left corner where the background and the rest is on startup is so small that if i had to guess it would be a 100x100 resolution it takes up. What is your startup like?