[Bug 373498] [NEW] Mutlimonitor UNR makes me want to start killing kittens (again).

[Adam Petaccia]

Public bug reported:

Summery posted first, real usecase/bug report below. This is on a fully
patched Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix on the Dell Mini 9.

1) UNR comes up on the wrong screen.
2) There's no way to get it to move to the right screen.
3) It defaults to popping up everything on top of itself, even when there's a better option.
4) Its a PITA to get it to the better option.
5) Once I want to multitask, I I lose everything again for no good reason.

After reading bug#158415, I understand some of the technical
difficulties of getting hotplugging right with the drivers, but
userspace is seriously fucked too. I've got a Dell Mini 9, with its
"cute" 1024x600 resolution. Meanwhile, I've got a monitor capable of
driving 1280x1024, which I plug in (VGA). After the the intel driver
requires me to log out, (but really it means reboot, otherwise nothing
happens, I switch to VT, and get garbage) I log in and the circus
begins.

I've dragged my monitors to have my built-in display below the "real"
monitor, because that's how they're physically laid out. So upon logging
in I'm greeted with a MASSIVE 1280x1024 netbook-launcher, and 1024x600
of blank space below it. Then I launch epiphany. Which, (SURPRISE!) pops
up OVER the netbook launcher, leaving me with 1280x1024 of epiphany, and
still 1024x600 of nothing below. After struggling for a few minutes to
get UNR to the bottom I give up and spend a few more to realize that I
have to rightclick the PANEL to unmaximize epiphany (because I can't
just move it -- move doesn't do anything but unmaximize my window,
follow my mouse and gives up before getting close to the built in). Then
I drag it down, reposition it so that I can actually see my window
controls, and then hit maximize and wine up with the attached
monstrosity.

Despite the fact that my layout is the exact opposite of what I want, I
deal with it to submit this report, and realize that I might need to
gimp the screenshot I took, so I go back up to UNR (which is
unconfigurably massive) and click on the graphics tab, AND EPIPHANY
DISAPPEARS once again leaving me with a monitor on the bottom filled
with nothing. How cute, its been minimized to the top of a different
monitor so that its not blocking what's not underneath it.

This is complete failure (and one of the reasons I'm scared about Gnome
3.0).

** Affects: netbook-launcher (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Mutlimonitor UNR makes me want to start killing kittens (again).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/373498
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