> Why not Unity-2D? Because Unity-2D doesn't work with Xinerama either. It puts everything on my left monitor, and puts an identical copy of the screen on the second and third monitors. If I try to drag something off the left monitor it just disappears, and clicking the mouse on the second or third monitor has no effect.
The *only* combination that (more or less) works for me (on a system which is by no means old or exotic) is the proprietary driver with GNOME Classic without effects. If that is the only thing that Ubuntu can offer me, then it's not unreasonable to expect it to at least work correctly. > To the contrary, this is a metacity behavior, not by Ubuntu's design. I get that it isn't by design. That's what makes it a bug. And I understand that the bug is in metacity, that's why I filed the bug on metacity. I understand that Ubuntu doesn't have unlimited resources, but this bug can't be that hard to fix. Note that the window is initially opened on the *correct* monitor. But then (once it first receives the focus, it appears to be, which isn't always immediately) something (presumably metacity) moves the window to the wrong monitor. It is active behaviour, probably a feature which is misfiring, which can't be that hard to just turn off or disable, or at least make configurable, for someone familiar with the metacity codebase. Perhaps it even already is configurable, if only someone could tell me how! I'd also like to point out that there is no evidence that this is specific to Nvidia, or even Xinerama. The only way I can get multiple monitors to work at all is with Xinerama, but for all I know the same would happen without it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to metacity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/727928 Title: Upon starting a program full screen with NVIDIA Xinerama, the window is immediately moved to the wrong monitor Status in “metacity” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/metacity/+bug/727928/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp