On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 16:11 +0000, nickolai wrote: > This change makes the multi-screen experience strictly worse in at least > one scenario, as follows. > > In my case, I have an external VGA screen that's smaller than my LVDS > screen, and physically placed above it. After running "xrandr --output > VGA --auto --above LVDS", my desktop extends upward to include the VGA > screen, but gnome-panel remains at the top of the LVDS screen (since > it's larger), in the middle of my logical desktop. This seems odd, > since windows that span both screens are now interrupted by a gnome- > panel.
I don't see that this would have changed with this patch would it? Weren't both panels placed on the same screen before this change as well? > To make matters worse, when a new window is created and placed on the > LVDS screen, the window is aligned to the top of the LVDS screen, as > opposed to the bottom of the gnome-panel. As a result, the window's > title bar is placed below the overlapping gnome-panel, making it > difficult to move the window. This part I see as well, but I'm trying to work out which component is at fault to file a bug. Thanks, James -- gnome panel has no way to specify on which screen it should appear https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192009 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs