I can confirm that the workaround from comment 2 still works. I was hit
by this bug recently when attempting to mirror my laptop screen and a
projector at work (NEC P502HL-2: https://www.necdisplay.com/p/np-
p502hl-2). Both support 1920x1080 resolution but refresh rates differ
very slightly and as XFCE tries to find an exact refresh rate match it
sets lower 1680x1050 resolution. Unfortunately the projector was really
unhappy about this and started to flicker like mad:(. So I had to use
the screens in a side by side configuration without mirroring (this made
the presentation a bit less comfortable for me:).

I also tested this at home with my monitor (EIZO EV2313W:
https://www.eizoglobal.com/support/db/products/model/EV2313W) and the
result was similar. Although both screens also support 1920x1080
resolution the refresh rates differ very slightly too and thus XFCE
finds an exact refresh rate match with 1680x1050 resolution. Fortunately
my EIZO monitor worked flawlessly (as it always does) and did not
produce any flickering stroboscope effects like that poor NEC
projector:).

I also noticed a warning in my "~/.xsession-errors" file when working with the 
projector:
(xfwm4:782): xfwm4-WARNING **: output size (1680x1050) and logical screen size 
(3840x1080) do not match
and with the monitor:
(xfwm4:786): xfwm4-WARNING **: output size (1680x1050) and logical screen size 
(1920x2160) do not match

But I am not sure if these warnings are completely relevant for this bug
or if it is a slightly different issue.

I will post the exact "xrandr -q" outputs for my laptop display with the
projector and monitor in the following comments.

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