Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: metacity
Whenever a new, maximized window is opened on my main monitor, metacity
(i assume) moves it to my left-most monitor. Most programs remember
whether they were maximized the last time you shut them down, so next
time you start them they open maximized. For instance Firefox does this.
However, a fraction of a second after the window is displayed on the
correct monitor, it jumps to my left-most monitor!
This is extremely annoying. I'm forever dragging windows back to my
middle monitor, which is the largest of the three and the one I use as
my main monitor. I've read suggestions that it had something to do with
what my "primary" monitor is, but I can't find any reference or
configuration item for that. My middle monitor is screen 0 however (the
left one being 1 and the right one 2), so that would not explain this
behaviour.
My exact configuration is as follows: I have two Geforce 8800 GTX's. My
middle monitor is screen 0 and is attached to the first card, the left
(screen 1) and right (screen 2) ones are attached to the second card.
Because I have two cards I have to use Xinerama to be able to use them
as one desktop, I can't use TwinView.
This behaviour only started a few months ago (I don't remember exactly
when, so unfortunately I can't pinpoint a particular update). Before
that the behaviour was as you would expect: windows stayed on the
monitor on which they were opened.
There is another bug about a very similar problem (bug #224845), but it
is listed as "fix released" since January 2009, so this problem must be
a new one.
Please let me know how I can help debug this problem!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: metacity 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 6 14:12:18 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/metacity
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
SourcePackage: metacity
XsessionErrors:
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2319): GLib-CRITICAL **:
g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
(gnome-panel:2314): GConf-WARNING **: Directory
`/apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel_screen2/screen' was not being monitored by
GConfClient 0x251a300
(gnome-panel:2314): GConf-WARNING **: Directory
`/apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen2/screen' was not being monitored by
GConfClient 0x251a300
(gnome-panel:2314): GConf-WARNING **: Directory
`/apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel_screen1/screen' was not being monitored by
GConfClient 0x251a300
(gnome-panel:2314): GConf-WARNING **: Directory
`/apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen1/screen' was not being monitored by
GConfClient 0x251a300
** Affects: metacity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid
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new, maximized windows being moved to different monitor
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655711
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