Hi,

The behavior implemented as of 0.9.8 is to attach the notification to
the panel, next to the status indicators. It seemed to be the most
familiar and consistent default position for notifications.

If the panel spans the two screens, then notifications are displayed on
the monitor on the right, along with other system indicators. If the
panel is only on one screen, because you have then arranged on top of
each other, then you will see the notifications on the top screen. If
however, the panel is located at the bottom of one or both of your
screens, then notifications will still be displayed at the top of the
screen, and on the top right of the workarea.

If you are using a language that displays in right-to-left order, then
the notifications should appear on the right corner as well.

Considering that multihead support is generally a setup for advanced
users, we've also added a gconf key to enable a smarter mode. To enable
it, you need to set "/apps/notify-osd/multihead_mode" to "focus-follow".

In this mode, the notifications will be displayed on the screen that
contains the active window, and if none exists (if ever that can
happen), then it will be displayed on the monitor that contains the
mouse pointer.

Note that we only support multihead with RANDR, ie with a single X
screen spanning multiple monitors, ie what most people use nowadays. Of
course, we'll try to had support for multiple X screens soon, and also
welcome patches for that.

-- 
regression vs. notification-daemon: positioning when multiple screens are 
available
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331369
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Status in Notify OSD: Fix Released
Status in Notify OSD Series: trunk: Fix Released
Status in “notify-osd” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: notify-osd

I use nvidia TwinView (one X desktop across two monitors). notification-daemon 
was apparently sensitive to this (presumably through Xinerama info?) and would 
popup on my primary screen.

notify-osd seems to be unaware of this, and appears in the top right of the 
overall viewport, which is on my secondary screen, and less visible, so less 
useful as a notifier.

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