Hah. I've lived with this annoying bug for over a year now, only to bump
into this unresolved beauty by accident.

Interestingly,

 - this made me require to babysit any use of the family PC (fixing their 
screen resolutions on each login). It also made me force Unity onto my clients 
because that's what Canonical unilaterally chose
 - There were also annoying effects with switching user sessions (losing the 
monitor layout again) and 
 - sometimes things just getting awry spontaneously during a session (symptom 
invariably apparent keyboard lockup; needed to change to another VT to forcibly 
`gnome-shell --replace`. Then the monitors would be swapped (annoying mousing) 
and unfixable (something about dbus unreachable). Also, keyboard input would 
get duplicated on another VT (which has lead me to finding entire private chat 
conversations in /root/.bash_history on two occasions.... Luckily I rarely chat 
"rm -rf" or similar)

Now, nvidia card gave the ghost, meaning I get the builtin intel chipset
to handle the graphics. Problem vanished! I just found this bug finding
a solution to the problem that I can't find the place to configure where
the GDM greeter is shown (if I switch off the secondary monitor, I don't
see the greeter).

I second the sentiment that it's aggravating to see Canonical dismiss
high-impact bugs like this on the sole reason that "We only support
Unity".

This is by far not the only upstart/timing related bug (I vividly
remember the issue where X would start on the wrong vt, so that "random
keys" would tear down the desktop without warning). The fact that this
one seems to manifest with other DMs shouldn't really make it less of an
issue.

It's at 228 affected users now. And if more people - like me - have
become so used to having to live with utterly broken UX since they opt
out of Unity (for clearly superior Gnome3 - it's actually responsive, no
advertisements) that they only flag as "also affects me" after they
accidentally bump into it when searching for other things... The real
number is going to be a bit higher.

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  Second screen position isn't saved from one session to another

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