Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: metacity
On a multi-monitor system, when starting a program which starts full
screen (such as Firefox or Thunderbird, if you closed them while being
full screen), the window is immediately whisked away and moved to the
wrong monitor. This is extremely irritating. I am forever having to drag
windows back to the monitor I want them to be displayed on, and on which
they initially opened.
I'm guessing that it's metacity which is doing this (I'm not using
desktop effects), but if that is wrong please let me know which package
it should be!
More details: I have two NVidia Geforce 8800 GTX cards, and three
monitors. My middle monitor is connected to the first card, the other
two to the second card. I'm using the proprietary NVidia driver with
Xinerama enabled in order to be able to use all three screens as one
desktop. I shall attach my xorg.conf file for the exact configuration.
It doesn't happen for every program. For instance, gedit also remembers
when you closed it while it was full screen, and opens full screen
again, but it stays on the monitor it opens op. It happens consistently
for Firefox and Thunderbird at least.
Initially, the window opens on the monitor the mouse is on, as expected,
but within a fraction of a second, it is moved to the left monitor. It
always moves to the left monitor, never another one. It also only seems
to happen the first time the window gets the focus. Usually that is
right away, but occasionally the window will open behind another window,
stay where it is, and then jump to the left monitor when I first move my
mouse over it.
Please let me know how I can help debug this problem!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: metacity 1:2.30.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-27.48-generic 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-27-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 2 18:35:56 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: metacity
** Affects: metacity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 maverick
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Title:
Upon starting a program full screen, the window is immediately moved
to the wrong monitor
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